[C] Total Legislative Failure to legislate Breeding / Parenting licences, to (a)
protect the rights of unborn and unwanted children, from unloving and
incompetent parenting; and (b) prevent overpopulation.
[D] Failure to Legislate Breeding/Parenting Licence, an endorsement of
Masculine Insecurityâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s use of the Control of Reproduction as a Weapon of War:
[E] Profiting from the absence of Breeding/Parenting Licence, and their
Control of Reproduction of a Surplus Cannon Fodder Population.
[F] Profiting from the absence of Breeding/Parenting Licence, and their Control
of Reproduction of a Surplus Vote and Poverty Pimp Fodder Population.

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Credibility Failure of AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence
―Judge: A law student who marks his own papers‖ – H.L. Mencken
―All law is interpretation. A lawyer uses words inherently
imprecise, and when a law is applied to the fact of a new
situation what lawyers do is interpret the code words to deem
them appropriately or inappropriately applied to the case at
hand. To view the law means to understand interpretation. Law
has more to do with Critical Literacy Studies than it probably
has to do with anything else.‖ -- Professor David Skover,
Professor of Law, Seattle University
―Proponents of Critical Legal Study theory believe that logic
and structure attributed to the law grow out of the power
relationships of the society. The law exists to support the
interests of the party or class that forms it and is merely a
collection of beliefs and prejudices that legitimize the
injustices of society. The wealthy and the powerful use the law
as an instrument for oppression in order to maintain their
place in hierarchy. The basic idea of CLS is that the law is
politics and it is not neutral or value free.‖ – Critical Legal
Studies: An Overview, Cornell University Law School

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What is a ‘Credible’ Judicial System/Jurisprudence?:
[1]
Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence submits that a ‗credible‘ judicial system – like the
gender balanced Mosuo in South West China who have no rape (not even a word in
their language for rape, because it does not exist), no murder, no suicide and no
unemployment; – is one which accurately applies the relevant natural or scientific
laws, to attain a specific related required result of inter-human and intra-species
harmony and balance; i.e.
[1.1]
the laws of nature/ecology, recognizing that a healthy ecological
environment, with due regard for regulating human procreation and resource
utilization behaviour in accordance with the carrying capacity laws of sustainability is
a sine qua non for all other constitutional rights; and
[1.2]
the laws of human nature; recognizing that culture‘s and sub-cultures1
whose members practice brutal honesty, self sufficiency, personal procreation and
consumption responsibility, transparency and commitment to root cause problem
solving have far greater harmony amongst their members, than tribes or cultures
whose members practice political correctness, sycophancy, hypocrisy, parasitism,
denial of responsibility, secrecy masquerading as ‗privacy‘, and a preference for
Perception Management: i.e. Bullshit the Public Relations Image Management
Pretend problem solving.
[2]
Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence asserts that AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence lacks
credibility as a system of Jurisprudence, in terms of its (a) failure to provide legal
personhood and rights to nature and animal and plant species; (b) disregard for the
objective and scientific carrying capacity truth of the laws of nature/ecology, and (c)
disregard for the laws of human nature, when they contradict the AnthroCorpocentric
objectives of the holders of subjective AnthroCorpocentric Truth.
[3]
The socio-political problem solving system of the Gender Balanced agrarian
Mosuo culture in South West China is plausibly the most credible system of
jurisprudence on planet earth. The people of Mosuo have no rape (not even a word in
their language for rape, because it does not exist), no murder, no suicide, no prisons,
no mental illness, no mental institutions, no unemployment and no homelessness; as a
result of abiding by (a) the laws of nature and tribal control of population and
consumption, and (b) the laws of human nature, in terms of public problem solving,
and a socio-political focus on root cause problem solving.2
[4]
In Mosuo culture, women are the head of the house, property is passed through
the female line, and women tend to make the business decisions. Mosuo women carry
on the family name and run the households, which are usually made up of several
Mosuo culture in SW China and Delancey Street Foundation, San Francisco
Tami Blumenfield (May 2009): The Na of Southwest China: Debunking the Myths; Washington Univ
http://web.pdx.edu/~tblu2/Na/myths.pdf
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families, with one woman elected as the head. The head matriarchs of each village
govern the region by committee. Political power, however, remains in the hands of
males, creating a gender-balanced society. The traditional Mosuo religion worships
nature, is called Daba, with Lugu Lake regarded as the Mother Goddess and the
mountain overlooking it venerated as the Goddess of Love. Their focus is their close
relationship to the land that supports them and with their neighbours, who also
support them.

AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence’s Social Contract: Despotism
[5]
Social Contract n: an implicit agreement among people that results in the
organization of society; where the individual surrenders liberty in return for
protection.
[6]
The English philosopher John Locke, whose thinking helped inspire the American
Revolution, said that society should be governed by an understood set of values he
termed the social contract. Individuals form states in order to maintain social order,
where ‗law and order‘ are considered to be a state of community relations that
contribute to social conditions which reduce conflict. By giving up their warlike ―state
of nature‖ posited to exist before such a hypothetical social contract is agreed upon,
they agree to uphold their citizen responsibilities in order to benefit from the social
order provided by the State, whose social contract responsibility is to guarantee them
with a reasonable guarantee of peace and security. Social contract theory has
consequently formed a central pillar in the historically important notion that for any
state to be considered legitimate, their authority must be derived from the consent of
the governed.
[7]
According to the US Supreme Court in Roberts v. Louisiana3, the core of the
Lockean ―social contract‖ idea is that a ―society in which men recognize no check upon
their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage
few.‖4
[8]
Consequently in a credible Lockean ―social contract‘, man must recognize
limitations to his freedoms, limitations to his ‗unbridled will to do as he likes‘; to
benefit from the maintenance of law and order and the ensured sustainability of the
social contract. In a non-credible social contract, certain men do not recognize
limitations on their freedoms, limitations to their ‗unbridled will to do as they like‘;

3

4

Roberts v. Louisiana, 431 U.S. 633 (1977)

“It is no service to individual rights, or to individual liberty, to undermine what is surely the fundamental right and
responsibility of any civilized government: the maintenance of order so that all may enjoy liberty and security. Learned
Hand surely had it right when he observed: “And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It
is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight
to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where
freedom is the possession of only a savage few; as we have learned to our sorrow.” The Spirit of Liberty 190 (3d ed.,
1960).”

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choosing instead to become a society where freedom to do as one likes, is ―the
possession of only a savage few.‖
[9]
Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence asserts that a credible sustainable social contract
requires Legislators and Jurists to recognize that their legislative/adjudicative
freedoms are limited by (a) the laws of nature/ecology, which dictate that a healthy
ecological environment, with due regard for regulating procreation and consumption
in accordance to the carrying capacity laws of sustainability is a sine qua non for all
other constitutional rights; and (B) the laws of human nature; which generally have
proven that a culture‘s sustainable organic internal harmony is directly proportional
to the quality of its members honesty, transparency, accountability and fully informed
consenting agreements.
[10]
Conversely when Legislators and Jurists do not recognize that their
legislative/adjudicative freedoms are limited by (a) the laws of nature/ecology, who
ignore the reality that a healthy ecological environment, with due regard for
regulating procreation and consumption in accordance to the carrying capacity laws of
sustainability is a sine qua non for all other constitutional rights; and/or (B) the laws
of human nature; who obstruct their societies path to sustainable organic internal
harmony; such jurisprudence is choosing to become a society where freedom to do as
one likes, is ―the possession of only a savage few.‖
[11]
Put differently, when Legislators and Jurists intentionally do not recognize that
their legislative/adjudicative freedoms are limited by the laws of nature/ecology and
human nature; and they promulgate legislation/judgements which contribute to, and
aggravate, social conditions of resource scarcity that increase conflict, for their own
socio-political profit; such legislators/jurists can well be described as a form of
government which has become destructive, whose long train of abuses and
usurpations, evinces a design towards AnthroCorpocentric Juristic Despotism. If so,
it is the right and duty of all citizens, particularly those who swore an oath to defend
the Constitution against enemies, foreign and domestic; to overthrow such
AnthroCorpocentric Juristic Despotism.
[12]
Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence asserts that the political, academic and legal captains
of AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence Titanic, refusal to recognize that their
legislative/adjudicative freedoms are limited by the laws of nature/ecology and human
nature; are driving SV AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence Titanic full speed to their
‗suicide pact‘ collision with the Laws of Ecology and Human Nature, their scarcity
induced crisis of conflict Iceberg.

Corporate influence and Control of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence:
―Proponents of Critical Legal Study theory believe that logic
and structure attributed to the law grow out of the power
relationships of the society. The law exists to support the

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interests of the party or class that forms it and is merely a
collection of beliefs and prejudices that legitimize the
injustices of society. The wealthy and the powerful use the law
as an instrument for oppression in order to maintain their
place in hierarchy. The basic idea of CLS is that the law is
politics and it is not neutral or value free.â&#x20AC;&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Critical Legal
Studies: An Overview, Cornell University Law School

[13]

The Hidden History of Corporations and Corporate Personhood:
Our Hidden History of Corporations in the United States
When American colonists declared independence from England in
1776, they also freed themselves from control by English
corporations that extracted their wealth and dominated trade.
After fighting a revolution to end this exploitation, our
countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s founders retained a healthy fear of corporate power and
wisely limited corporations exclusively to a business role.
Corporations
were
forbidden
from
attempting
to
influence
elections, public policy, and other realms of civic society.
Initially, the privilege of incorporation was granted selectively
to enable activities that benefited the public, such as
construction of roads or canals. Enabling shareholders to profit
was seen as a means to that end. The states also imposed
conditions (some of which remain on the books, though unused) like
these*:
* Corporate charters (licenses to exist) were granted for
limited time and could be revoked promptly for violating laws.
* Corporations could engage only
fulfill their chartered purpose.

in

activities

necessary

a
to

* Corporations could not own stock in other corporations nor own
any property that was not essential to fulfilling their chartered
purpose.
* Corporations were often terminated
authority or caused public harm.

if

they

exceeded

their

* Owners and managers were responsible for criminal acts committed
on the job.
* Corporations could not make any political or
contributions nor spend money to influence law-making.

charitable

For
100
years
after
the
American
Revolution,
legislators
maintained tight controll of the corporate chartering process.
Because of widespread public opposition, early legislators granted
very few corporate charters, and only after debate. Citizens
governed corporations by detailing operating conditions not just
in charters but also in state constitutions and state laws.

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Incorporated businesses were prohibited from
that legislators did not specifically allow.

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taking

any

action

States also limited corporate charters to a set number of years.
Unless a legislature renewed an expiring charter, the corporation
was dissolved and its assets were divided among shareholders.
Citizen authority clauses limited capitalization, debts, land
holdings, and sometimes, even profits. They required a company‘s
accounting books to be turned over to a legislature upon request.
The power of large shareholders was limited by scaled voting, so
that large and small investors had equal voting rights.
Interlocking directorates were outlawed. Shareholders had the
right to remove directors at will.
In Europe, charters protected directors
liability for debts and harms caused
American legislators explicitly rejected
The penalty for abuse or misuse of the
bargain and a fine, but dissolution of the

and stockholders from
by their corporations.
this corporate shield.
charter was not a plea
corporation.

In 1819 the U.S. Supreme Court tried to strip states of this
sovereign right by overruling a lower court‘s decision that
allowed New Hampshire to revoke a charter granted to Dartmouth
College by King George III. The Court claimed that since the
charter contained no revocation clause, it could not be withdrawn.
The Supreme Court‘s attack on state sovereignty outraged citizens.
Laws were written or re-written and new state constitutional
amendments passed to circumvent the (Dartmouth College v Woodward5)
ruling. Over several decades starting in 1844, nineteen states
amended their constitutions to make corporate charters subject to
alteration or revocation by their legislatures. As late as 1855 it
seemed that the Supreme Court had gotten the people‘s message when
in Dodge v. Woolsey6 it reaffirmed state‘s powers over ―artificial
bodies.‖
But the men running corporations pressed on. Contests over charter
were battles to control labor, resources, community rights, and
political sovereignty. More and more frequently, corporations were
abusing their charters to become conglomerates and trusts. They
converted the nation‘s resources and treasures into private
fortunes, creating factory systems and company towns. Political
power began flowing to absentee owners, rather than communityrooted enterprises.
The industrial age forced a nation of farmers to become wage
earners, and they became fearful of unemployment–a new fear that
corporations quickly learned to exploit. Company towns arose. and
blacklists of labor organizers and workers who spoke up for their
5
6

rights
became
common.
When
workers
began
to
organize,
industrialists and bankers hired private armies to keep them in
line. They bought newspapers to paint businessmen as heroes and
shape public opinion. Corporations bought state legislators, then
announced legislators were corrupt and said that they used too
much of the public‘s resources to scrutinize every charter
application and corporate operation.
Government
spending
during
the
Civil
War
brought
these
corporations fantastic wealth. Corporate executives paid ―borers‖
to infest Congress and state capitals, bribing elected and
appointed officials alike. They pried loose an avalanche of
government financial largesse. During this time, legislators were
persuaded to give corporations limited liability, decreased
citizen authority over them, and extended durations of charters.
Attempts were made to keep strong charter laws in place, but with
the courts applying legal doctrines that made protection of
corporations and corporate property the center of constitutional
law, citizen sovereignty was undermined. As corporations grew
stronger, government and the courts became easier prey. They
freely reinterpreted the U.S. Constitution and transformed common
law doctrines.
One of the most severe blows to citizen authority arose out of the
1886 Supreme Court case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific
Railroad7. Though the court did not make a ruling on the question
of ―corporate personhood8,‖ thanks to misleading notes of a clerk,
the decision subsequently was used as precedent to hold that a
corporation was a ―natural person.‖ This story was detailed in
―The Theft of Human Rights9,‖ a chapter in Thom Hartmann‘s
recommended book Unequal Protection10.
From that point on, the 14th Amendment, enacted to protect rights
of freed slaves, was used routinely to grant corporations
constitutional ―personhood.‖ Justices have since struck down
hundreds of local, state and federal laws enacted to protect
people from corporate harm based on this illegitimate premise.
Armed with these ―rights,‖ corporations increased control over
resources, jobs, commerce, politicians, even judges and the law.
A United States Congressional committee concluded in 1941, ―The
principal instrument of the concentration of economic power and
wealth has been the corporate charter with unlimited power….‖
Many U.S.-based corporations are now transnational, but
corrupted charter remains the legal basis for their existence.
7

[14]
Reclaim Democracy: Corporate Personhood11 page has excellent additional
Resources on the history and effects of Corporate Influence, via Corporate Personhood
on Courts, Politics and AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence. Additionally, an absolute
must read is Thom Hartmann‘s book, Unequal Protection: The rise of Corporate
Dominance and theft of human rights12, which includes an overview of corporate
personhood, the history of the Boston Tea Party, as America's first revolt against
transnational corporate power, Jefferson‘s reasons for opposing "corporate
monopolies", how corporate personhood became law, its impacts, a resolution for
abolishing Corporate Personhood and much more.
AnthroCorpocentric Influence in Judicial Decision Making Models:
[15]
According to Kearney and Merrill in The Influence of Amicus Curiae Briefs
on the Supreme Court, there are three different models of judicial decision-making:
the conventional legal model, the attitudinal model and the interest group theory
model.13
[16]
Under the conventional legal model of judicial decision making, judges regard
themselves as ―seeking to resolve cases in accordance with the requirements of law, as
understood by professional acts in the legal community.‖ Amicus briefs impact their
judicial decision-making if they contain ―new information-legal arguments and
background factual material-that would be relevant to persons seeking the correct
result in light of established legal norms‖.
[17]
Under the ‗attitudinal model‘ of judging, it is argued by political scientists, that
judges have ―fixed ideological preferences,14 and hence ―case outcomes are a product of
the summing of the preferences of the participating judges, with legal norms serving
only to rationalize outcomes after the fact‖. If or where a Judge consequently holds
fixed ideological preferences contrary to the information in the Amicus brief, the brief
will have ―little or no impact on the outcomes reached by a court, because each judge's
vote in a case is assumed to be the product of his or her pre-established ideological
preferences with respect to the issue presented.‖ The attitudinal model suggests that
―a judge can obtain all the information needed to determine his or her vote, by reading
the "Question Presented" and the statement of facts contained in the parties' briefs‖.
11
12

Kearney, Joseph D, and Merrill, Thomas W (2000/01/01): ―In writings about judicial behavior, Judge Posner has
suggested that appellate judges are primarily motivated by the pleasure they derive from participating in the
"spectator's game" of deciding cases. See RICHARD A. POSNER, OVERCOMING LAW 126- 35 (1995) [hereinafter
POSNER, OVERCOMINGLAW]; Richard A. Posner, What Do Judges and Justices Maximize? (The Same Thing
Everybody Else Does), 3 SUP. CT. ECON. REV. 1, 23-30 (1994) [hereinafter Posner, What do Judges and Justices
Maximize?]. This theory does not precisely conform to any of the three models of judging we will discuss, but in
practice it would appear to fall closer to the legal model than to either the attitudinal model or the interest group
model. If judging is like observing a game of tennis or chess, then presumably an important part of the process is
understanding and following the rules of the game.
14 See JEMEY A. SEGAL & HAROLD J. SPAETH, THE SUPREME COURT AND THE ATTITUDINAL MODEL
65-73 (1993) (describing the rationale and historical antecedents of the attitudinal model).
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If or where amicus briefs ―provide additional legal arguments and factual background,
under this model they offer information of no relevance to judges‖.
[18]
Under the ‗interest group theory‘ model of judicial decision making, it is assumed
that judges do not have strong ideological preferences about most issues. Instead they
are ―empty vessels who seek to decide cases so as to reach those results supported by
the most influential groups in society that have an interest in the question at hand‖.
[19]
In this model, Amicus briefs are ―important to the judicial process because of the
signals that they convey about how interested groups want particular cases decided‖.
As such, as in Jaffee, if a number of parties from an influential corporate, political or
media group file amicus briefs, that endorse a particular outcome, ―this tells the
judges how to rule if they want to secure the approval of [those] organized groups‖.
[20]
Consequently it shouldn‘t surprise readers that the organisations with the
highest carrying capacity footprints, i.e. those effectively robbing and raping the
planets resources from future generations, are the ones that have been, and are overrepresented in Amicus filings, and naturally have laid the jurisprudence foundation of
the Human Factory Farming War Economy Racket Anthropocentric outcomes – and
current Anthropocentric legal doctrine - reached by the courts.
Lawyers are co-conspirators in perpetuating the alienation and symbolism
of the legal culture and its message of power and authority.
[21]
In Black Rage Confronts the Law, Paul Harris writes in Chapter 3: The Law:
Its Myths and Rituals:
The law is the most powerful expression of a society's rules. The
dominant purpose of the law in every country is to preserve the
status quo, to protect people and institutions who have privilege
and power, whether in goverment or in civil society. The law
fulfils this purpose by the peaceful resolution of conflicts, but
also by coercion. An example of the resolution of conflict through
the legal system is the immense amount of time, money, and energy
used in dealing with business arrangements. Politicians complain
about criminal cases clogging up the courts, but in reality most
lawyers' time and a large amount of litigation concern capitalist
business deals and conflicts. A 1995 University of Wisconsin
survey reported that only 3 percent of lawyers focus on criminal
law. In San Francisco in 1995, the public defender's office had
sixty-eight lawyers, eleven investigators, and thirty staff
personnel. In contrast, one of the largest corporate law firms,
Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro, had 294 lawyers and 335 staff
personnel, in their San Francisco office alone. They also have ten
other offices, including one in Hong Kong and one in Tokyo.
Criminal law gets most of the media attention, but corporate law
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where decisions are being made which control our environment, our
jobs, and the very quality of our lives. The law is necessary to
facilitate and mediate these decisions, thereby avoiding an
anarchy that would severely disrupt the free market and societal
relations.
The law also mediates thousands of other conflicts in civil
society,
from
landlord-tenant
conflicts
to
consumer-related
product liability suits; from simple car accident cases to major
constitutional issues; from divorces to bankruptcy proceedings, In
the United States in particular, law seems to surround us.
Peaceful resolution of conflict through the mutual acceptance of a
judicial forum is one method of keeping society on an even keel.
Another method is coercion -- using the force of the state, or the
threat of that force, on individuals in order to secure their
obedience. And when they fail to obey, they state uses that force
to inflict punishment. Robert Cover gets to the heart of the
matter when he writes, "The Judges deal pain and death. That is
not all they do. Perhaps that is not what they usually do. But
they do deal death, and pain"
If law's primary purpose is to protect the powerful and keep
things as they are, in America its secondary purpose is to protect
individual rights. The Bill of Rights is the cornerstone of these
protections. ... If human history teaches us anything, it is that
governments cannot rule by force alone. In every period of history
people have fought against tyranny. .. Therefore for a goverment
to continue to hold power it must create a legal system that has
an image of justice and some sense of fairness. It must also win
the psychological acceptance of the majority of its citizens. How
it does this has been the subject of increasing academic scrutiny.
One of the more prevalent theories of this process is put forward
by Peter Gabel, a founder of the Conference on Critical Legal
Studies, and the president of New College and New College School
of Law: "The principle role of the legal system within these
societies is to create a political culture that can persuade
people
to
accept
both
the
legitimacy
and
the
apparent
inevitability of the existing hierarchical arrangement. The need
for this Legitimation arises because people will not accede to the
subjugation of their souls through the deployment of force alone.
They must be persuaded, even if it is only a "pseudo-persuasion,"
that the existing order is both just and fair, and tht they
themselves desire it. In particular, there must be a way of
managing the intense interpersonal and intra-psychic conflict that
a
social
order
founded
upon
alienation
and
collective
powerlessness repeatedly produces. "Democratic consent" to an
inhumane social order can be fashioned only by finding ways to
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and this requires both the pacification of conflict and the
provision of fantasy images of community that can compensate for
the lack of real community that people experience in their
everyday lives.
Society fashions this "democratic consent" through what has begun
to be referred to as legal culture. Law has a culture of its own,
including education, training, rules of behaviour, philosophy,
folkways, habits, language, economics, tradition, and stories. The
courtroom is one of the key elements of this culture. The
structure and rituals of the courtroom are intended to communicate
the "three M's" of the law: majesty, mystique, and might. The
architecture of the courtroom divides the lawyers and the judge
and his staff from the lay people. The judge's seat is elevated
above everyone else. There is an American flag near the judge, who
wears a large black robe. There is a bailiff, usually a law
enforcement officer in uniform, who enforces the judge's rules for
the courtroom. Sometimes these rules have no relationship to the
process of justice. For example, some judges won't allow members
of the public to chew gun. When I was a law student observing a
regular trial in Oakland Superior Court, I was told to leave the
courtroom for chewing an antacid tablet. In the OJ Simpson trial,
Judge Lance Ito called a reporter into chambers for sucking on a
cough drop. A number of years ago, in the United States District
Court in San Francisco, the chief judge had a standing order that
children were not allowed in the courtroom. My client's wife was
told by the bailiff to take her two children, aged ten and seven,
out of the courtroom on the day their father was being sentenced
to prison for five years. I refused to allow this clear violation
of the Sixth Amendment's right to a public trial, the First
Amendment's right of association, and the general constitutional
right of privacy, which protects family relationships. Although
the judge allowed the children to stay in my case, the standing
order continued in force and lawyers continued to obey it.
Lawyers are co-conspirators in perpetuating the alienation and
symbolism of the legal culture and its message of power and
authority. .. A defendant's case is dependent on her attorney's
ability to translate human experience into legal dogma. Her future
depends on the judge's acceptance of the defendants confessional
as translated by her probation officer and attorney.
The lawyer, like a priest, is the middleperson between life and
judgement. He suffers the initiation rites of his calling, wears
its vestments, legitimizes its authority, speaks its language,
partakes of its rituals, and maintains a monopoly on its mystery.
For the lawyers clients, the lawyer, and the public, the result of
the courtroom process is an acceptance of authority and a
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rituals and symbols. Watching the court process is frightening,
but it can also be exciting for the public. They feel secure
observing authority in action. They admire and identify with the
judges and the people in power, while at the same time accepting
their own position as lower in the hierarchy of societal
relationships. Just as a formal church service legitimates
established religion, the traditional courtroom ritual legitimates
the legal system.
Another major structural support of the existing legal culture is
legal reasoning. This is a form of thought that presupposes
existing societal relations. It does not allow for questioning of
political decisions that have led to our institutions. It makes it
seem as though our laws are a consequence of existing societal
relations. This area of law presupposes the unequal distribution
of property, which is justified by the philosophical notions that
in America everyone is free and that if a person has enough talent
he or she can acquire property. If an individual fails to "make
good," it is his or her own failure based on lack of merit. What
is fascinating about the law is that it incorporates the existing
system of inequality, but then the law itself is used as a
rationale for legitimating the very system that is embedded within
it. In other words, the law enforces rules as the natural order,
when in fact those rules have already assumed on set of
philosophical tenets and rejected alternatives.
The term real property refers to houses, buildings, and land, as
contrasted to personal property, which includes most other things
one owns. Real property law in the United States allows one to own
all the houses, buildings, and land one can afford. A person can
make a living sitting in his home and collecting money from other
people living in their homes, which he owns. An individual can own
a tree or a beach. This arrangement is called capitalism. If a
lawyer brought a lawsuit in an American court on behalf of
neighbours who wanted occasional access to a "private" beach, the
lawsuit would be dismissed immediately. A judge would not allow
legal arguments regarding the public nature of a beach and whether
it should or should not be owned by an individual.
This legal result is not common to all societies. Historically,
among many Native American tribes land could not be owned by an
individual. There was no proprietary interest in the environment.
One could no more own a beach than one could own the ocean. People
made fun of the Indians for allegedly selling the island of
Manhattan for a few beads. But in Native American legal thought
people could not own Manhattan Island, and therefore they could
not sell it.
In modern-day America a tenant cannot refuse to pay rent on the
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Cuba one could raise such an argument and win. The Cuban General
Law on Housing adopted in 1988 provides as follows: "Personal
property in housing must be understood ... essentially as a right
of enjoyment of the house by the owner and his/her family, without
having to pay anything after paying its price, but in now case can
this right of personal property in the house become a mechanism of
enrichment or exploitation."
Another major factor in legal reasoning is the myth that the law
is made up of neutral, fair rules. Rules are supposed to become
evident to any educated and legally trained judge or lawyer who
objectively analyzes the facts and the previous legal decisions.
This myth is articulated perfectly by California Court of Appeals
Judge Edward Wallin: "I am never troubled by making a decision. I
just decide the way the law dictates."
The judge's statement assumes that reason and logic determine
judicial results. It denies the influence of the judge's personal
political views. The statement also carries the message that the
"law" is just floating out there in space, majestically dictating
the correct (fair and just) result. This denies the fact that
judges must interpret conflicting arguments to arrive at a result,
and that their interpretation is based on a myriad of factors that
are rooted in present-day political conditions.
Anyone who does not believe that judges are influenced by public
pressure, social movements, and their own prejudices and opinions
should read The Brethren by Scott Armstrong and Bob Woodward, the
journalist who helped uncover the Watergate story. This was the
first popular book to go behind the black-robed mystique of the
United States Supreme Court and expose the myth that judges
interpret the law based on objective, neutral principles untainted
by politics and predisposition.

Corporate Controlled Jurisprudence: Binding Mandatory Arbitration:
[22]
In The Ballooning Number of Corporate Kangaroo Courts Is Destroying
Our Seventh Amendment Rights15, Jim Hightower writes that â&#x20AC;&#x2022;If you've been
gouged by your bank, discriminated against, sexually harassed, unfairly fired, you'll
most likely find that you're barred from the courthouse door.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;
Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but just try
getting your day in court. Most Americans don't realize it, but
our Seventh Amendment right to a fair jury trial against corporate
wrongdoers has quietly been stripped from us. Instead, we are now

All you really need to know about today's process is that it's the
product of years of conceptual monkey-wrenching by corporate
lobbyists, Congress, the Supreme Court and hired-gun lobbying
firms looking to milk the system for steady profits. First and
foremost, these fixers have turned a voluntary process into the
exact opposite: mandatory. Let's look at this mess.
— Unlike courts, arbitration is not a public system, but a private
business.
— Far from being neutral, "the third-party" arbitration firms are
— get this! — usually hand-picked by the corporation involved in
the case, chosen specifically because they have proven records of
favoring the corporation.
— The corporation also gets to choose the city or town where the
case is heard, allowing it to make the case inconvenient,
expensive and unfair to individuals bringing a complaint.
— Arbitrators are not required to know the law relevant to the
cases they judge or follow legal precedents.
— Normal procedural rules for gathering and sharing evidence and
safeguarding fairness to both parties do not apply in arbitration
cases.
— Arbitration proceedings are closed to the media and the public.
— Arbitrators need not reveal the reasons for their decisions, so
they are not legally accountable for errors, and the decisions set
no legal precedents for guiding future corporate conduct.
— Even if an arbitrator's decision is legally incorrect, it still
is enforceable, carrying the full weight of the law.
— There is virtually no right to appeal an arbitrator's ruling.
That adds up to a kangaroo court! Who would choose such a rigged
system? No one. Which is why corporate America has resorted to
brute force and skullduggery to drag you into their arbitration
wringer.
By "force," I mean practically every business relationship you
have with a corporation (customer, employee, supplier, etc.)
begins with you blindly signing away your right to go to court.
Written in indecipherable legalese, these sneaky provisos are
usually secluded in the tiny-type of pre-printed, take-it-orleave-it, non-negotiable contracts.
By "you," I mean everyone one of us who: takes a job, gets a
credit card, subscribes to cable TV, buys an insurance policy,
rents an apartment, purchases nearly any new product (from
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a nursing home, becomes a franchisee or corporate supplier or
signs up with a landscaping service.
If you seek justice because you've been gouged by your bank,
discriminated against, sexually harassed, unfairly fired, cheated
on wages, sold a shoddy product, denied health care coverage or
otherwise harmed by a corporation, you'll most likely find that
you're barred from the courthouse door. That document you
unwittingly signed has shackled you to the corporation's own
privatized court.
Since binding mandatory arbitration "agreements" are written by
corporate lawyers, it's no surprise that they stack the deck in
favor of corporations. But â&#x20AC;&#x201D; wow! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the percentage of rigged wins
is disgusting.
For example, Public Citizen found that one giant firm, the
National Arbitration Forum, heard over 34,000 consumer-versus-bank
cases in California. It sided with financial giants 95 percent of
the time. Even more astonishing, the city of San Francisco found
that of the 18,045 cases brought by banks and other powers against
overmatched California consumers, NAF's private judges sided with
the corporations 100 percent of the time.

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AnthroCorpocentric
Legislators and
Jurists
Despotic Failure to Recognize their Legislative /
Juristic Freedoms are limited by Laws of
Nature/Ecology and Human Nature

―In the face of the basic fact that fossil fuel reserves are
finite .. Fossil fuels resemble capital in the bank. A prudent
and responsible parent will use his capital sparingly in order
to pass on to his children as much as possible of his
inheritance. A selfish and irresponsible parent will squander it
in riotous living and care not one whit how his offspring will
fare .. I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly
about our responsibilities to our descendants--those who will
ring out the Fossil Fuel Age.‖ – Admiral Hyman Rickover, 14 May
195716

16

Rickover (1957/05/14)

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―Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put
demands on the natural world that can overwhelm any efforts to
achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction
of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth.‖ -World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, signed by 1600 senior
scientists from 70 countries, including 102 Nobel Prize
laureates

[23]
AnthroCorpocentric17 Flat Earth Society18 Jurisprudence views the world from a
firmly entrenched inaccurate Anthropocentric (human-centred) perspective, where
there is always a brighter future, because the implicit assumption of our
Anthropocentric political, economic and legal worldview is that there will always be
―enough‖ Non Renewable Natural Resources (NNR‗s) to enable a brighter future, and
all politics and economics needs to concern itself with, is how to use these NNR‗s to
provide ever improving material living standards for our ever-expanding global
population19. From a broader Ecocentric20 Finite Resource Scarcity perspective,
beyond Peak NNR21, there is no hope for a brighter future, the future is one of
depletion, austerity, resource wars & socio-economic and political collapse;22 because
the fundamental assumption of ever-increasing NNR‗s, underlying our limited
AnthroCorpocentric jurisprudence perspective is inaccurate.23

[24]

Peak Oil is the end of cheap oil, it is the point where every barrel of oil is harder
to find, more expensive to extract, and more valuable to whoever owns or controls it.
As early as 2000, geological experts warned Peak Oil would occur sometime between
2000 and 200724. Cheap oil is the oxygen of the ―economic growth‖25 global economic
system and industrial food production26.

Clugston (2012) (p.127): ―The AnthroCorpocentric perspective considers the philosophy, processes, and activities by
which natural resource inputs to a society‗s economy are converted into goods and services outputs (wealth creation). It
also considers the philosophy, processes, and activities by which goods and services (wealth) are allocated among a
society‗s population. The fundamental assumption underlying the prevailing AnthroCorpocentric perspective is that
notwithstanding periodic temporary shortfalls, natural resource inputs and natural habitat waste absorption capacities
will remain sufficient to perpetuate global industrialism indefinitely.‗ – Scarcity, Clugston Chris (pg. 127)
18 Bartlett (1993) (1996/09) (1999/01) (2002); Hardin (1999);
19 Hardin (1985); Bartlett (2006/09); Guillebaud (2007); Leahy (2003)
20 ―The ecological perspective considers natural resource inputs and natural habitat waste absorption capacities as the
ultimate limiting factors governing a society‗s economic/political processes and activities, its attainable economic output
(GDP) level, and its attainable level of societal wellbeing—i.e., the material living standards enjoyed by the society‗s
population.‖ – Scarcity, Clugston C (127)
21 Bartlett (2006/09); Clugston (2012): Peak NNR: ―NNRs are finite; and as their name implies, NNR reserves are not
replenished on a time scale that is relevant to humans. More unfortunately, economically viable supplies associated with
the vast majority of NNRs that enable our industrialized way of life are becoming increasingly scarce, both domestically
(US) and globally. While there will always be ―plenty of NNR‘s in the ground, there will not always be ―plenty of
economically viable NNR‘s in the ground. In fact, there are ―no longer enough economically viable NNR‘s in the ground to
enable continuous improvement in human societal wellbeing at historical rates.‖ –Clugston, C: Scarcity
22 Scarcity (p.4)
23 Clugston Chris: Scarcity: Humanity‗s Final Chapter: The realities, choices and likely outcomes associated with everincreasing non-renewable natural resource scarcity, page 4
24 On February 11, 2006 Deffeyes claimed world oil production peaked on December 16, 2005
25 Deffeyes (2006): "The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put
more oil in ground."
26 Ruppert (2004): p.24: ―We eat oil. It is a little known fact that for every 1 calorie of food energy produced, 10 calories of
hydrocarbons are consumed.‗
17

[25.4] Scarcity
concludes
―Our
Next
Normal
is
Catastrophe‖:
Our
AnthroCorpocentric worldview does not recognize that ―from a broader ecological
perspective, all human economics and politics are irrelevant,‖ to ―paraphrase Thoreau,
we are ‗thrashing at the economic and political branches of our predicament, rather
than hacking at the ecological root.‘‖30
[25.5] ―Because the underlying cause associated with our transition from prosperity
to austerity is ecological (geological), not economic or political, our incessant barrage
of economic and political ―fixes‖ are misguided and inconsequential. Our national
economies are not ―broken‖; they are ―dying of slow starvation‖ for lack of sufficient
economically viable NNR inputs.
[25.6] ―Our industrial lifestyle paradigm, which is enabled by enormous quantities
of finite, non-replenishing, and increasingly scarce NNRs, is unsustainable, i.e.
physically impossible – going forward.31
[25.7] ―Global humanity‗s steadily deteriorating condition will culminate in selfinflicted global societal collapse, almost certainly by the year 2050. We will not accept
gracefully our new normal of ever-increasing, geologically-imposed austerity; nor will
we suffer voluntarily the horrifically painful population level reductions and material
living standard degradation associated with our inevitable transition to a sustainable,
pre-industrial lifestyle paradigm.
[25.8] ―All industrialized and industrializing nations, irrespective of their economic
and political orientations, are unsustainable and will collapse in the not-too-distant
future as a consequence of their dependence upon increasingly scarce NNRs.
[25.9] We can voluntarily reduce population and consumption, or NNR scarcity
depletion will force it upon us, in our inevitable transition to a sustainable, preindustrial lifestyle paradigm.
[26]

Natural Resources and Human Evolution:

[26.1] During the past 2+ million years, humanity—Homo sapiens and our hominid
predecessors—evolved through three major lifestyle paradigms: hunter-gatherer,
agrarian, and industrial.
[26.2] Each of the three paradigms is readily distinguishable from the other two in
terms of its worldview, natural resource utilization behavior, and resulting level of
societal wellbeing—i.e., attainable population levels and material living standards.

[27.1] The hunter-gatherer (HG) lifestyle paradigm spanned over 2 million years,
from the time that our hominid ancestors first stood erect on the continent of Africa to
approximately 8,000 BC. HG societies consisted of small nomadic clans, typically
numbering between 50 and 100 individuals, who subsisted primarily on naturally
occurring vegetation and wildlife.
[27.2] The HG lifestyle can best be described as subsistence living for a relatively
constant population that probably never exceeded 5 million globally. Hunter-gatherers
produced few manmade goods beyond the necessities required for their immediate
survival, and they generated no appreciable wealth surplus.
[27.3] The HG worldview revered Nature as the provider of life and subsistence, a
perspective that fostered a passive lifestyle orientation through which huntergatherers sought to liveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;albeit somewhat exploitativelyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;within the environmental
context defined by Nature. The HG resource mix consisted almost entirely of
renewable natural resources such as water and naturally occurring edible plant life
and wildlife.
[28]

The Agrarian Lifestyle Paradigm:

[28.1] The agrarian lifestyle paradigm commenced in approximately 8,000 BC and
lasted until approximately 1700 AD, when England initiated what was to become the
industrial revolution.

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[28.2] Agrarian societies existed primarily by raising cultivated crops and
domesticated livestock.
[28.3] The agrarian worldview perceived Nature as something to be augmented
through human effort, by domesticating naturally occurring plant and animal species.
The agrarian lifestyle orientation was proactive in the sense that it sought to improve
upon what Nature provided.
[28.4] While modest wealth surpluses were sometimes generated by agrarian
populations, agrarian existence typically offered little more in the way of material
living standards for the vast majority of agrarian populations than did the HG
lifestyle—although the global agrarian population did increase significantly, reaching
nearly 800 million by 1750 AD.
[28.5] The agrarian resource mix consisted primarily of RNRs, which were
increasingly overexploited by ever-expanding, permanently-settled agrarian
populations. As agrarian cultivation and grazing practices became increasingly
intensive, renewable natural resource reserves were increasingly depleted and
natural habitats were increasingly degraded as well.
[29]

The Industrial Lifestyle Paradigm:

[29.1] The inception of the industrial lifestyle paradigm occurred with England‘s
industrial revolution in the early 18th century, less than 300 years ago.
[29.2] Today, over 1.5 billion people—approximately 22% of the world‘s 6.9 billion
total population—is considered ―industrialized‖; and nearly three times that many
people actively aspire to an industrialized way of life.
[29.3] Our industrialized world is characterized by an incomprehensibly complex
mosaic of interdependent yet independently operating human and non-human entities
and infrastructure.
[29.4] These entities must function continuously, efficiently, and collectively at the
local, regional, national, and global levels in order to convert natural resource inputs
into the myriad goods and services that enable our modern industrial way of life.
[29.5] [Note that failures within the industrial mosaic can disrupt, temporarily or
permanently, the flow of societal essentials—water, food, energy, shelter, and
clothing—to broad segments of our global population.]
[29.6] Tremendous wealth surpluses are typically generated by industrialized
societies; such wealth surpluses are actually required to enable the historically
unprecedented material living standards enjoyed by increasingly large segments of
ever-expanding industrialized populations.
[29.7] The industrialized worldview perceives Nature as something to be harnessed
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condition. It is an exploitive worldview that seeks to use natural resources and
habitats as the means to continuously improve human societal wellbeing—that is, to
provide continuously improving material living standards for ever-increasing numbers
of ever-expanding human populations.
[29.8] The resource mix associated with today‘s industrialized societies is heavily
skewed toward nonrenewable natural resources, which, in addition to renewable
natural resources and natural habitats, have been increasingly overexploited since the
dawn of the industrial revolution.
[29.9] It is precisely this persistent overexploitation of natural resources and
natural habitats—especially NNRs—that has enabled the ―success‖ associated with
the industrial lifestyle paradigm—success being defined here as continuous increases
in both human population levels and human material living standards.
[30]

Nonrenewable Natural Resources—the Enablers of Industrialization:

[30.1] Our industrial lifestyle paradigm is enabled by nonrenewable natural
resources (NNRs)—energy resources, metals, and minerals. Both the support
infrastructure within industrialized nations and the raw material inputs into
industrialized economies consist almost entirely of NNRs; NNRs are the primary
sources of the tremendous wealth surpluses required to perpetuate industrialized
societies.
[30.2] As a case in point, the percentage of NNR inputs into the US economy
increased from less than 10% in the year 1800, which corresponds roughly with the
inception of the American industrial revolution, to approximately 95% today. Between
1800 and today, America‘s total annual NNR utilization level increased from
approximately 4 million tons to nearly 7 billion tons—an increase of over 1700 times!
[30.3] In the absence of enormous and ever-increasing NNR supplies, the 1.2 billion
people who currently enjoy an industrialized way of life will cease to do so; and the
billions of people aspiring to an industrialized way of life will fail to realize their goal.
[31]

NNR Scarcity:

[32]
As their name implies, NNRs are finite—they are not replenished by Nature; and
they are scarce—economically viable NNR deposits are rare. Persistent extraction
(production) will therefore deplete recoverable NNR reserves to exhaustion. [Note: the
terms NNR ―production‖ and NNR ―extraction‖ are used interchangeably throughout
the paper. Although ―extraction‖ is the proper term—humans do not produce NNRs—
the term ―production‖ has gained wide acceptance within the NNR extraction
industries.]
[32.1] The typical NNR depletion cycle is characterized by: a period of
―continuously more and more‖, as the easily accessible, high quality, low cost
resources are extracted; followed by a ―supply peak‖,8 or maximum attainable

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extraction level; followed by a period of ―continuously less and less‖, as the less
accessible, lower quality, higher cost resources are extracted.
[32.2] Since the inception of our industrial revolution, humanity has been the
beneficiary of ―continuously more and more‖ with respect to available NNR supplies.
[32.3] Unfortunately, in the process of reaping the benefits associated with
―continuously more and more‖, we have been eliminating—persistently and
systematically—the very natural resources upon which our industrialized way of life
depends.
[32.4] Increasingly, global NNR supplies are transitioning from ―continuously more
and more‖ to ―continuously less and less‖, as they peak and go into terminal decline.
As a result, NNRs are becoming increasingly scarce—ever-tightening global NNR
supplies are struggling to keep pace with ever-increasing global demand.
[33]

The Analysis:

[33.1] The following Global Nonrenewable Natural Resource Scarcity Assessment
quantifies the magnitude associated with increasing global NNR scarcity and the
probabilities associated with imminent and permanent global NNR supply shortfalls.
The assessment consists of two analyses, both of which are based on US Geological
Survey (USGS) and US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.
[33.2] The Global NNR Scarcity Analysis assesses the incidence of global scarcity
associated with each of 57 NNRs during the period of global economic growth (20002008) prior to the Great Recession.
[33.3] The Global NNR Supply Shortfall Analysis assesses the probability of a
permanent global supply shortfall associated with each of 26 NNRs between now and
the year 2030.
[34]

Global NNR Supply Shortfall Analysis Findings:

[34.1] Fifty (50) of the 57 NNRs (88%) analyzed in the Global NNR Scarcity
Analysis experienced global scarcity—and therefore experienced temporary (at least)
global supply shortfalls—during the 2000-2008 period. Twenty three (23) of the 26
NNRs (88%) analyzed in the Global NNR Supply Shortfall Analysis are likely to
experience permanent global supply shortfalls by the year 2030. Each permanent
NNR supply shortfall represents another crack in the foundation of our globalizing
industrial lifestyle paradigm; at issue is which crack or combination of cracks will
cause the structure to collapse?
[34.2] Permanent global supply shortfalls associated with a single critical NNR or
with a very few secondary NNRs can be sufficient to cause significant lifestyle
disruptions—population level reductions and/or material living standard degradation.

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[34.3] A permanent shortfall in the global supply of oil, for example, would be
sufficient to cause significant local, national, and/or global lifestyle disruptions, or
outright global societal collapse; as would permanent global supply shortfalls
associated with 2-3 critical NNRs such as potassium, phosphate rock, and (fixed)
nitrogen; as would concurrent permanent global supply shortfalls associated with 4-5
secondary NNRs such as the alloys, catalysts, and reagents that enable the effective
use of critical NNRs.
[34.4] Given our vulnerability to an ever-increasing number of imminent and
permanent global NNR supply shortfalls, the likelihood that the mix and volume of
shortfalls will reach their ―critical mass‖ is a question of ―when‖, not ―if‖.

[35]

Implications of Increasing Global NNR Scarcity:

[36]

Increasing NNR Scarcity:

[36.1] Available supplies associated with an overwhelming majority of NNRs—
including bauxite, copper, iron ore, magnesium, manganese, nickel, phosphate rock,
potash, rare earth metals, tin, and zinc—have reached their domestic US peak
extraction levels, and are in terminal decline.16 Based on the evidence presented

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above, available supplies associated with a vast majority of NNRs are becoming
increasingly scarce globally as well.
[36.2] Because global NNR supplies are transitioning from ―continuously more and
more‖ to ―continuously less and less‖, our global societal wellbeing levels— our
economic activity levels, population levels, and material living standards—are
transitioning from ―continuously more and more‖ to ―continuously less and less‖ as
well.
[37]

Sustainability is Inevitable:

[37.1] ―Business as usual‖ (industrialism), ―stasis‖ (no growth), ―downscaling‖
(reducing NNR utilization), and ―moving toward sustainability‖ (feel good initiatives)
are not options; we will be sustainable…

[38]

Unintended Consequences:

[38.1] It is difficult to argue that our incessant quest for global industrialization
and the natural resource utilization behavior that enables our quest are inherently
evil. We have simply applied our everexpanding knowledge and technology over the
past several centuries toward dramatically improving our level of societal wellbeing,
through our ever-increasing utilization of NNRs.
[38.2] However, despite our possibly justifiable naïveté during our meteoric rise to
―exceptionalism‖, and despite the fact that our predicament was undoubtedly an
unintended consequence of our efforts to continuously improve the material living

[39.1] Humanity‘s transition to a sustainable lifestyle paradigm, within which a
drastically reduced human population will rely exclusively on renewable natural
resources (RNRs)—water, soil (farmland), forests, and other naturally occurring
biota—is therefore inevitable. Our choice is not whether we ―wish to be sustainable‖;
our choice involves the process by which we ―will become sustainable‖.
[39.2] We can choose to alter fundamentally our existing unsustainable natural
resource utilization behavior and transition voluntarily to a sustainable lifestyle
paradigm over the next several decades. In the process, we would cooperate globally in
utilizing remaining accessible NNRs to orchestrate a relatively gradual—but
horrifically painful nonetheless—transition, thereby optimizing our population level
and material living standards both during our transition and at sustainability. Or, we
can refrain from taking preemptive action and allow Nature to orchestrate our
transition to sustainability through societal collapse, thereby experiencing
catastrophic reductions in our population level and material living standards.
[40]

The Squeeze is On:

[40.1] It would be convenient if our unraveling were to occur in 1,000 years, or 500
years, or even 50 years. We could then dismiss it as a concern for future generations
and go busily about improving our national and global societal wellbeing levels in the
meantime. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The Great Recession was a tangible
manifestation of our predicament—NNR scarcity was epidemic in 2008, both
domestically (US) and globally. Our unraveling is in process. At present, however,
only an extremely small minority of the global populace understands that NNR
scarcity is the fundamental cause underlying our predicament and its derivative
economic and political problems. When the general public becomes aware of this fact
and of the fact that NNR scarcity is a permanent, ever-increasing, and unsolvable
phenomenon, collapse will ensue in short order.
[41]

Public Ignorance:

[41.1] Historically, globally available, economically viable supplies associated with
most NNRs were generally sufficient; NNR scarcity, when it occurred, was a
temporary phenomenon. Incremental economically viable NNR supplies were
available to be brought online, thereby restoring economic output (GDP) and growth
to ―expected‖ levels. Because episodes of NNR scarcity have occurred periodically since
the dawn of our industrial revolution, they are considered temporary ―inconveniences‖
associated with the boom phases of ―normal‖ commodity boom/bust cycles.

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[41.2] Today, despite the fact that NNR scarcity is becoming increasingly
prevalent—as clearly demonstrated by the NNR Scarcity Analysis—and despite the
fact that the impact associated with NNR scarcity has certainly been felt—as an
underlying cause of the Great Recession—the general public remains almost
completely unaware. This is understandable, as it is obviously in nobody‘s interest to
see humanity fail.
[41.3] Our opinion leaders—i.e., the political, economic, and other societal elites
who have the greatest vested interest in preserving the status quo—continue to
preach that historically robust levels of economic growth can be sustained forever.
Some of our opinion leaders may still believe this to be true, although it is difficult to
believe that many or most do.
[41.4] [There currently exists considerable speculation regarding the extent to
which our opinion leaders actually understand our predicament and its consequences,
and are merely conducting a charade in order to perpetuate ―business as usual‖, from
which most of them benefit disproportionately, for as long as possible. At the end of
the day, the awareness levels and motives associated with our opinion leaders are
irrelevant; the outcome—societal collapse—remains unchanged.]
[41.5] The general public—given their cornucopian worldview and their almost
complete lack of understanding regarding the enablers of their industrialized
lifestyles—adheres steadfastly to the notion that ―every generation will have it better
than the last‖. The vast majority of the general public undoubtedly still believes this
to be true, despite stagnant or declining material living standards in much of the
industrialized world. So long as myth supersedes reality and the general public
remains ignorant regarding the nature of our predicament and of the fact that our
predicament cannot be solved, complete societal collapse is unlikely. It is likely,
however, that as our situation devolves, the general public will become increasingly
frustrated, angry, and scared.
[41.6] ―We‖ will blame ―them‖—the government, corporations, foreigners,
capitalists, communists, Christians, Muslims, the rich, the poor, anybody who is not
―us‖—for our continuously deteriorating circumstances. And we will become
increasingly susceptible to the empty rhetoric of Hitleresque demagogues who
promise—and fail—to restore ―normalcy‖, at the expense of our remaining freedoms.
Through their ignorance, the general public will exacerbate our already deteriorating
situation.
[42]

Public Awareness:

[42.1]
A.

Within the next few years, however, NNR scarcity will become:
―Noticeable‖—NNR supplies will become increasingly constrained and prices
will rise continuously; then

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B.

―Inconvenient‖—periodic and temporary shortages and rationing associated
with NNRs and derived goods and services will occur with increasing
frequency; then

C.

―Disruptive‖—shortages and rationing associated with ever-increasing
numbers of NNRs and derived goods and services will become permanent;
and finally,

D.

―Debilitating‖—supplies associated with ever-increasing numbers of NNRs
and derived goods and services will become permanently unavailable.

[42.2] As this scenario unfolds, increasingly large segments of humanity will
become aware of the fact that NNRs enable our industrialized way of life, and that
ever-increasing NNR scarcity is the fundamental cause underlying our continuously
declining economic output (GDP) and societal wellbeing levels, both domestically (US)
and, by that time, globally as well. Historically prevalent public attitudes of
generosity and forbearance, which were made possible by abundant and cheap NNRs
during our epoch of ―continuously more and more‖, will be displaced by public
intolerance:
A.

Childbirth will be condemned rather than celebrated;

B.

All immigration will be outlawed;

C.

Traditionally unquestioned resource uses—from ―social entitlements‖ and
universally accessible healthcare, to professional sports and cosmetics—will
be considered ―unfair‖ or ―wasteful‖, and ultimately eliminated; and

D.

―Excessive wealth‖ will be appropriated for ―the public good‖.

[42.3] Ultimately, the general public will become aware of the fact that our
predicament has no solution; and the following ―trigger‖ conditions for societal
collapse will be met: NNR scarcity will become ―disruptive‖—the available mix and
levels associated with economically viable NNRs and derived goods and services will
become insufficient to enable ―tolerable‖ day-to-day existence; and sufficiently large
segments of society will:
A.

Become aware of the fact that ever-increasing NNR scarcity is a permanent
phenomenon; &

B.

Acknowledge the fact that our predicament cannot be ―fixed‖; ―continuously
less and less‖—continuously declining societal wellbeing—is our new reality.

[42.4] Previously sporadic social unrest and resource wars will degenerate—
seemingly instantaneously—into full fledged conflicts among nations, classes, and
ultimately individuals for remaining natural resources and real wealth. It will become
universally understood that the only way to ―stay even‖ within a continuously
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somebody else. Life will become a ―negative sum game‖ within the ―shrinking pie‖ of
―continuously less and less‖.
[42.5] Social institutions will dissolve; law and order will cease to exist; and chaos
will fill the void— nations will collapse.
[42.6] Given that half of the 89 analyzed NNRs are either likely or almost certain
to remain scarce permanently at the global level; that no extraterrestrial source NNR
imports exists for the world as a whole, and that the global industrialized /
industrializing population has increased nearly 5 fold since 1975… …it is highly likely
that the interval between global societal wellbeing ―divergence‖ in 2008 and global
societal collapse will be 35 years or less.
[43]

Humanity's Predicament:

[43.1] During the course of our unrelenting pursuit of global industrialization, and
our consequent ever-increasing utilization of the earth‘s increasingly scarce NNRs, we
have been eliminating— persistently and systematically—the very natural resources
upon which our industrialized way of life and our very existence depend.
[43.2] Ironically, the natural resource utilization behavior that has enabled our
historically unprecedented ―success‖—our industrial lifestyle paradigm—and that is
essential to our continued success, is also pushing us toward our imminent demise.
This is humanity‘s predicament.
[44]

Humanity's Limited Perspective:

[44.1] To date, our distorted cornucopian worldview and limited anthropocentric
perspective have rendered us incapable of understanding our predicament and its
fundamental cause, which is ecological—ever-increasing NNR scarcity—not economic
or political. The economic and political problems with which we concern ourselves are
merely manifestations of our predicament—they are symptoms, not the disease.
Because none of the economic and political expedients that we employ to solve these
problems can create additional NNRs, our attempted economic and political
―solutions‖ are irrelevant.
[44.2]
pump.

Metaphorically, the well is running dry, yet we insist on tinkering with the

[45]
The Tragedy of the Commons is an ecological concept that refers to the depletion
of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to
each one's self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common
resource is contrary to their long-term best interests. Ecologist Garrett Hardin
famously explored this social dilemma in ―The Tragedy of the Commons‖.32
[46]
Social Trap is a term used by psychologists to describe a situation in which a
group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads
to a loss for the group as a whole; such as for example overfishing, energy "brownout"
and "blackout" power outages during periods of extreme temperatures, overgrazing on
the Sahelian Desert, and the destruction of the rainforest by logging interests and
agriculture. Social fence refers to a short-term avoidance behavior by individuals that
leads to a long-term loss to the entire group.

[47]
Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence recognizes that the nations resources are a ‗commons‘
and that increased population and/or consumption of resources can only occur up to
the point of ‗carrying capacity‘ tipping points. Once ‗carrying capacity‘ laws of nature
tipping points are breached -- Peak of Production, referred to as Peak Oil, or Peak
NNR, etc -- resource scarcity occurs which – in the absence of equivalent voluntary
population and consumption reduction - triggers resource war violence, which
exponentially increases the problems of those tasked with ‗national security‘.
[48]
There is a fundamental difference between the resource war violence – deaths –
from temporary resource scarcity that results on the upward side of the Peak Oil/NNR

32

Hardin, G (1968/12/13)

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resource curve (services per capita), and the resource war violence on the downslope of
the curve. If we use the analogy of a car collision, as the resource war violence, on the
upward curve, the car has access to brakes (bring in resources from elsewhere) which
reduce the force of the collision (violence); on the downhill slope the car has no brakes
(cannot import resources from elsewhere, Global Peak Oil), which aggravates resource
scarcity similarly to a foot on the car‘s gaspedal, and no brakes, driving it faster and
faster to collision, the crisis of conflict.

Military Doctrine: Scarcity and Conflict:
―There is also a new and different threat to our national security
emerging—the
destruction
of
our
environment.
The
defense
establishment has a clear stake in this growing threat... one of

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our key national security objectives must be to reverse the
accelerating pace of environmental destruction.‖ - Senator Sam Nunn
(D-GA), Senate, June 28, 1990
***
―According to a growing body of literature, scarcity of freshwater
to meet the many needs of Third World countries is rapidly
escalating. Furthermore, many of the remaining exploitable sources
of freshwater are in river basins shared by two or more sovereign
states. These facts present the potential for violent conflict over
water unless affected states can develop and use their common water
resources in a cooperative, sustainable, and equitable manner. The
United States, in its National Security Strategy and Foreign
Affairs Policy, has called attention to the problem of resource
scarcity as having important implications for American security.‖33
***
―The effect of environmental problems on national security, now
commonly referred to as "environmental security," is important to
the US military. The concept first appeared in the 1991 National
Security Strategy (NSS), when President Bush recognized that the
failure to competently manage natural resources could contribute to
potential conflict.34 The 1993 National Security Strategy echoed
this concern and included the environment as an element of economic
power.35 When A National Security Strategy of Engagement and
Enlargement was published in February 1996, it amplified the
importance of the environment as a component of United States
national security even further.36 The 1996 NSS recognizes that
competition for natural resources "is already a very real risk to
regional stability around the world."37 It also states that national
and international environmental degradation poses a direct threat
to economic growth and to global and national security.38 Thus, as
one of the institutions charged with protecting our national
security, the US military also should be concerned with all aspects
of environmental security.‖ 39

***
―Environmental issues can adversely influence our national security
in two important ways. One of these is potential or actual conflict
between nations or groups that can arise as a result of disputes
over natural resources or transnational environmental problems. A
second way that environmental issues can directly affect national
security is by destabilizing governments or institutions in a
country afflicted with environmental degradation. Haiti is a good
example. As early as 1978, the President's Council on Environmental
Quality noted that deforestation in Haiti was almost complete and
then predicted that social disruption and instability would soon

LTC Kurt F. Ubbelohde (10 April 2000): Freshwater Scarcity in the Nile River Basin, US Army War College
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA378148
34 National Security Strategy of the United States, Washington, DC, US Gov Printing Office, 1991.
35 National Security Strategy of the United States, Washington, DC, US Gov Printing Office, 1993
36 A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement, Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office,
February 1996.
37 Ibid., at 26.
38 Ibid., at 30.
39 Colonel Brian X. Bush (13 March 1997): Promoting Environmental Security during Contingency Operations; US Army
War College http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA326869
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follow.40 It took 16 more years and a military overthrow of duly
elected President Aristide to spark renewed US military involvement
in Haiti. However, it is clear that the environmental devastation
of that country's forests, soil and water supplies created a cause
and effect between environmental issues and Haiti's economic
deprivation, massive migration and the basic instability of
virtually every economic or governmental institution in the
country.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;41

[49]
1974: NSSM 200: National Security Study Memorandum: Implications of
Worldwide Population Growth For U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (The
Kissinger Report)42:
Rapid population growth adversely affects every aspect of economic
and social progress in developing countries. It absorbs large
amounts of resources needed for more productive investment in
development. It requires greater expenditures for health, education
and other social services, particularly in urban areas. It
increases the dependency load per worker so that a high fraction
of
the output of the productive age group is needed
to support
dependents. It reduces family savings and domestic investment. It
increases existing severe pressures on limited agricultural land in
countries where the world's "poverty problem" is concentrated. It
creates a need for use of large amounts of scarce foreign exchange
for food imports (or the loss of food surpluses for export).
Finally, it intensifies the already severe unemployment and
underemployment problems of many developing countries where not
enough productive jobs are created to absorb the annual increments
to the labor force.
Even in countries with good resource/population ratios, rapid
population growth causes problems for several reasons: First, large
capital investments generally are required to exploit unused
resources. Second, some countries already have high and growing
unemployment and lack the means to train new entrants to their
labor force. Third, there are long delays between starting
effective family planning programs and reducing fertility, and even
longer delays between reductions in fertility and population
stabilization. Hence there is substantial danger of vastly
overshooting population targets if population growth is not
moderated in the near future.
[..] Moderation of population growth offers benefits in terms of
resources
saved
for
investment
and/or
higher
per
capita
consumption. If resource requirements to support fewer children are
reduced and the funds now allocated for construction of schools,
houses, hospitals and other essential facilities are invested in
productive activities, the impact on the growth of GNP and per
capita income may be significant. In addition, economic and social
progress resulting from population control will further contribute
to the decline in fertility rates. The relationship is reciprocal,
and can take the form of either a vicious or a virtuous circle.
Environmental Quality. 1978 Annual Report on the Environment Washington: Council on Environmental Quality,
Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office, 1978.
41 Colonel Brian X. Bush (13 March 1997): Promoting Environmental Security during Contingency Operations; US Army
War College http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA326869
42 http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PCAAB500.pdf
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Implications of Population Pressures for National Security
It seems well understood that the impact of population factors on
the subjects already considered -- development, food requirements,
resources, environment -- adversely affects the welfare and
progress of countries in which we have a friendly interest and thus
indirectly adversely affects broad U.S. interests as well.
[..] A recent study* of forty-five local conflicts involving Third
World countries examined the ways in which population factors
affect the initiation and course of a conflict in different
situations. The study reached two major conclusions:
1. ". . .
population factors are indeed critical in, and often
determinants of, violent conflict in developing areas. Segmental
(religious,
social,
racial)
differences,
migration,
rapid
population growth, differential levels of knowledge and skills,
rural/urban differences, population pressure and the special
location of population in relation to resources -- in this rough
order of importance
-all
appear
to
be important
contributions to conflict and violence...
2. Clearly, conflicts which are regarded in primarily political
terms
often
have
demographic
roots:
Recognition
of
these
relationships appears crucial to any understanding or prevention of
such hostilities."
[..] Professor Philip Hauser of the University of Chicago has
suggested the concept of "population complosion" to describe the
situation in many developing countries when (a) more and more
people are born into or move into and are compressed in the same
living space under (b) conditions and irritations of different
races, colours, religions, languages, or cultural backgrounds,
often with differential rates of population growth among these
groups, and (c) with the frustrations of failure to achieve their
aspirations for better standards of living for themselves or their
children. To these may be added pressures for and actual
international migration. These population factors appear to have a
multiplying effect on other factors involved in situations of
incipient violence.
These adverse conditions appear to contribute frequently to harmful
developments of a political nature: Juvenile delinquency, thievery
and other crimes, organized brigandry, kidnapping and terrorism,
food riots, other outbreaks of violence; guerrilla warfare,
communal violence, separatist movements, revolutionary movements
and counter-revolutionary coupe. All of these bear upon the
weakening or collapse of local, state, or national government
functions.
Beyond national boundaries, population factors appear to have had
operative roles in some past politically disturbing legal or
illegal mass migrations, border incidents, and wars. If current
increased population pressures continue they may have greater
potential for future disruption in foreign relations.
Perhaps most important, in the last decade population factors have
impacted
more
severely
than
before
on
availabilities
of
agricultural land and resources, industrialization, pollution and
the environment. All this is occurring at a time when international

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communications have created rising expectations which are being
frustrated by slow development and inequalities of distribution.
Population growth and inadequate resources. Where population size
is greater than available resources, or is expanding more rapidly
than the available resources, there is a tendency toward internal
disorders and violence and, sometimes, disruptive international
policies or violence. The higher the rate of growth, the more
salient a factor population increase appears to be. A sense of
increasing crowding, real or perceived, seems to generate such
tendencies, especially if it seems to thwart obtaining desired
personal or national goals.
2. Populations with a high proportion of growth.
The young
people, who are in much higher proportions in many LDCs, are likely
to be more volatile, unstable, prone to extremes, alienation and
violence than an older population. These young people can more
readily be persuaded to attack the legal institutions of the
government or real property of the "establishment," "imperialists,"
multinational corporations, or other ── often foreign ── influences
blamed for their troubles.
3. Population factors with social cleavages.
When adverse
population factors of growth, movement, density, excess, or
pressure coincide with racial, religious, color, linguistic,
cultural, or other social cleavages, there will develop the most
potentially explosive situations for internal disorder, perhaps
with external effects. When such factors exist together with the
reality or sense of relative deprivation among different groups
within the same country or in relation to other countries or
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[50]
Butts, Kent (25 April 1994): Environmental Security: A DOD Partnership for
Peace43; US Army War College:
[Report on the Dept of Defense effort to create a Proactive
Environmental Security Peace Strategy as part of the Fifth Senior
Environmental Leadership Conference.]
â&#x20AC;&#x2022;Environmental degradation imperils nations' most fundamental
aspect of security by undermining the natural support systems on
which all of human activity depends.â&#x20AC;&#x2013; - Michael Renner, 198944
The DOD environmental security mission has its roots in the fact
that environmental problems that lead to instability and contention
are being ignored, and U.S. combat forces are becoming involved in
the resulting conflict. In addition, DOD's environmental security
mission supports the National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United
States and must be understood in that context.
As stated by the National Security Strategy, "The stress from
environmental challenges is already contributing to political
conflict." Recognizing the importance of environmental issues to
U.S. national security interests, the Deputy Undersecretary of
Defense
for
Environmental
Security
defined
DOD's
role
in
environmental security to include "mitigating the impacts of
adverse
environmental
actions
leading
to
international
instability."45
Instability and conflict often result from the poverty created by
the economic regression of resource depletion or scarcity. The
abuse of power by the leaders of many developing countries has
frequently manifested itself in exploitive resource management
practices, a wasting away of the economic infrastructure, human
suffering and ethnic-based competition for increasingly scarce
resources, and, ultimately, to conflict.
[..] The global population has grown geometrically and will double
over the period from 1950 to 2000, bringing environmental issues to
the fore. Rates of global population continue to increase,
particularly in the vulnerable developing world, accelerating
demand for food and a broad range of other natural resources. The
global rates of consumption of natural resources are far greater
than the ecosystem has previously endured.10 The world is rapidly
moving beyond local shortages, which historically have created
local conflict, to regional or transboundary resource shortages
with the potential to escalate into far reaching hostilities
involving U.S. forces. In numerous regions the ability of the earth
to replenish its renewable resources, even with the human
intervention of irrigation and fertilizer, has already been
exceeded. Indeed, these very interventions often create unforeseen,
adverse environmental consequences. Thus, the frequently ignored,
long-lead-time environmental factors have reached their thresholds
Butts, Kent Hughes (25 April 1994): Environmental Security: A DoD Partnership for Peace
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB339.pdf
44 Michael Renner, National Security: The Economic and Environmental Dimensions, Washington, DC: Worldwatch
Institute, May 1989. Another early and important effort to broaden the definition of national security to include
environmental challenges was Jessica Tuchman Matthews, "Redefining Security," Foreign Affairs, Spring 1989, pp. 162178.
45 Sherri Wasserman Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, (Environmental Security), Statement Before the
Subcommittee on Installation and Facilities, May 13, 1993.
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and are causing instability that security policy analysts cannot
ignore.
[..] The most notable environmental threats to U.S. security are:
• Global:
competition for or threatened denial of strategic
resources; ozone depletion; global warming; loss of biodiversity;
proliferation
of
weapons
of
mass
destruction;
effects
of
demilitarization of nuclear, chemical, biological and conventional
weapons; space debris; and inability or unwillingness of countries
to
comply
with
international
environmental
agreements
and
standards.
• Regional: environmental terrorism, accident or disaster; vectorborne
communicable
diseases;
regional
conflicts
caused
by
scarcity/denial of resources; cross border and global common
contamination; and environmental factors affecting military access
to land, air, and water.
• State: environmental degradation of the resource base on which
governmental legitimacy depends; risks to public health and the
environment from DOD activities; increasing restrictions on
military operations and access to air, land, and water; inefficient
use of military resources; reduced weapons systems performance;
demilitarization of nuclear, chemical, and conventional weapons
systems; and erosion of public trust.
Recommendations:
• Appoint a special assistant to the National Security Advisor for
International
Environmental
Security
Affairs
and
create
an
interagency working group, chaired by the Special Assistant, to
develop
a
Presidential
Decision
Document
establishing
U.S.
environmental security policy.
• Establish environmental security as a principal objective of the
National Security Strategy and include environmental issues in
National Security Council threat assessments and foreign policy
planning.
• Emphasize the linkage between environmental security objectives
and
the
achievement
of
current,
primary
congressional
and
administration
interests
of
democratic
reform,
economic
development, and conflict resolution.
• In conjunction with the United Nations, use DOD capabilities to
enforce international treaties and agreements.
• Create a DOD Environmental Crisis Monitoring Center to warn the
policymaking community of chronic environmental issues before
political positions have hardened and policy options have narrowed.

[51]
Department of the Army, Field Manual 100-23, Peace Operations46.
Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, December 1994, p. 28.
The seventh principle of humanitarian action in armed conflict47
says: ―Contextualization: Effective humanitarian action should
encompass a comprehensive view of overall needs and of the impact
of interventions. Encouraging respect for human rights and
46
47

http://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/fm100-23(94).pdf
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addressing the underlying
elements. (own emphasis)

[52]

causes

of

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essential

1995: White House: National Security Strategy48:
â&#x20AC;&#x2022;Increasing
competition
for
the
dwindling
reserves
of
uncontaminated air, arable land, fisheries and other food sources,
and water, once considered 'free' goods, is already a very real
risk to regional stability around the world. The range of risks
serious enough to jeopardize international stability extends to
massive population flight from man-made or natural catastrophes,
such as Chernobyl or the East African drought, and to large-scale
ecosystem damage caused by industrial pollution, deforestation,
loss of biodiversity, ozone depletion, desertification, oceanic
pollution and ultimately climate change.49

[53]
April 1996: MAJ William E David, USA Military Intelligence: Environmental
Scarcity as a Cause of Violent Conflict50, School of Advanced Military Studies;
United States Army Command and General Staff College
This monograph argues that the Army is unprepared for the
implications of environmental scarcity as a cause of violent
conflict. The proof follows in the next three chapters. Chapter
Tow provides a conceptual model for examining the causal
relationship between environmental scarcity and violent conflict.
It shows causation by answering two questions. First, does
scarcity cause specific social effects, such as population
migration and poverty? Second, so the social effects that result
from scarcity cause violent conflict? [..] [This chapter
concludes that conflicts arising from environmental scarcity will
occur more frequently in the future and threaten U.S. national
security interests. Third, does doctrine address conflicts caused
by environmental scarcities? The doctrinal review reveals that
the Army does not recognize environmental scarcity as a cause of
conflict. Chapter Four synthesizes the findings from the
preceding chapters, showing that the Army is intellectually
unprepared for conflicts caused by environmental scarcity. The
monograph ends with two recommendations. First, the Army should
recognize environmental causes of war in its doctrine. Second,
the Army should adopt the Modified Conflict Causality Model as a
doctrinal tool for predicting and evaluating future conflicts.
[..] Humans adversely affect the environment. Contaminated water,
deforestation, soil erosion, and the depletion of fisheries are
but some of the outcomes. Although few people would disagree with
the
causation
between
human
activities
and
environmental
degradation, their reactions place them in one of two categories:
cornucopians or neo-Malthusians. Cornucopians do not worry about
protecting any single natural resource. They believe that human
ingenuity will always allow the substitution of more abundant
February 1995: A National Security Study of Engagement and Enlargement
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/nss/nss-95.pdf
49 National Security Strategy of the United States. February 1995, Washington, D. C: Government Printing Office, 1995,
p. 18
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resources to produce the same products and services. NeoMalthusians put less faith in ingenuity, arguing that "renewable
resources' is a misleading term.
[..] The divergence between cornucopians and neo-Malthusians
enters into the debate corcerning the causes of conflict.
Corncopians remain prisoners of the industrial revolution. They
assume that there are only social cuases for social and political
changes, neglecting the role of nature. However, Robert Kaplan
noted: "nature is coming back with a vengeance, tied to
population
growth.
It
will
have
incredible
security
implications"[1] Neo-Malthusians realize that humans cannot
seperate themselves from nature. The following causality analysis
adheres to the neo-Malthusian perspective. therefore, it takes a
holistic approahc toward causality, combining conflict studies
and the study of the physical environment. After providing a
conflict causality model, this chapter uses six case studies to
prove that violent conflicts can arise from environmental
scarcities.

[54]
13 Mar 1997: Col BX Bush: Promoting Environmental Security during
Contingency Operations51; US Army War College
â&#x20AC;&#x2022;The effect of environmental problems on national security, now
commonly referred to as "environmental security," is important to
the US military. The concept first appeared in the 1991 National
Security Strategy (NSS), when President Bush recognized that the
failure to competently manage natural resources could contribute to
potential conflict.[1] The 1993 National Security Strategy echoed
this concern and included the environment as an element of economic
power.[2] When A National Security Strategy of Engagement and
Enlargement was published in February 1996, it amplified the
importance of the environment as a component of United States
national security even further.[3] The 1996 NSS recognizes that
competition for natural resources "is already a very real risk to
regional stability around the world."[4] It also states that
national and international environmental degradation poses a direct
threat to economic growth and to global and national security.[5]
Thus, as one of the institutions charged with protecting our
national security, the US military also should be concerned with
all aspects of environmental security.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;
â&#x20AC;&#x2022;Environmental issues can adversely influence our national security
in two important ways. One of these is potential or actual conflict
between nations or groups that can arise as a result of disputes
over natural resources or transnational environmental problems. A
second way that environmental issues can directly affect national
security is by destabilizing governments or institutions in a
country afflicted with environmental degradation. Haiti is a good
example. As early as 1978, the President's Council on Environmental
Quality noted that deforestation in Haiti was almost complete and
then predicted that social disruption and instability would soon
follow.[6] It took 16 more years and a military overthrow of duly
elected President Aristide to spark renewed US military involvement
in Haiti. However, it is clear that the environmental devastation
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of that country's forests, soil and water supplies created a cause
and effect between environmental issues and Haiti's economic
deprivation, massive migration and the basic instability of
virtually every economic or governmental institution in the
country.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;

[55]
Spring 1997: Canadian Security Intelligence Service Archived: Commentary No.
71: Environmental Scarcity and Conflict52, by Peter Gizewski, Project on
Environment Population and Security, Peace and Conflict Studies Program,
University of Toronto
The past decade has witnessed growing recognition of the importance
of environmental factors for national and international security.
In 1987, the UN World Commission on Environment and Development
pointed to environmental stress as "a possible cause as well as a
result of conflict". In 1992, the UN Security Council warned that
sources of instability in the economic, social, humanitarian, and
ecological fields included military and political "threats to peace
and stability". Two years later, the Clinton Administration
observed that "terrorism, narcotics trafficking, environmental
degradation, rapid population growth and refugee flows ...have
security implications for present and long-term American policy".
A wealth of popular commentary in the past few years has asserted
the existence of general links between environmental stress and
violence and security concerns. But proponents of such linkages
tend to sensationalise the issue, ignoring empirical research and
exaggerating the importance of environmental pressures as a
conflict-generating force. In fact, until recently, scholars and
policy makers functioned with relatively limited understanding of
the causal mechanisms by which environmental scarcity can lead to
conflict.
Recent work has yielded results which partially fill this gap.
Employing a series of detailed examples in which environment
exhibits a prima facie link to social instability, such case
studies carefully trace a causal connection between scarcity and
conflict, and advance a set of key propositions which describe
these links and the conditions under which they apply.
General Insights:
Current work on
linkages between environment
and conflict
emphasizes the conflict-generating potential of renewable resource
scarcities (i.e. cropland, fresh water, fuel wood and fish). While
the strategic significance of non-renewable resources (e.g.
petroleum, minerals) has long been recognized, market forces which
reduce their demand and stimulate substitution and technical
innovation have served increasingly to mitigate their scarcity and
conflict-generating potential. Such forces have been less effective
in preventing scarcities of renewables-scarcities which, growing
evidence shows, threaten the internal stability of a number of
developing countries.
According to the University of Toronto's Thomas Homer-Dixon,
scarcities of agricultural land, forests, fresh water and fish are
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those which contribute the most to violence. These deficiencies can
be demand-induced, a function of population growth within a region;
supply-induced, resulting from the degradation of resources within
the region; or structural, the result of an unequal distribution of
resources throughout the society. The three processes are not
mutually exclusive and may-and often do-occur simultaneously,
acting in tandem.
The degradation and depletion of renewable resources can generate a
range of social effects. It can work to encourage powerful groups
within society to shift resource distribution in their favour. This
process, known as "resource capture" generates profits for elites
while intensifying the effects of scarcity among the poor or weak.
A process of "ecological marginalization" often follows with poorer
groups forced to seek the means of survival in more ecologically
fragile regions such as steep upland slopes, areas at risk of
desertification, tropical rain forests, and low quality public
lands within urban areas. The high population densities in these
regions, combined with a lack of capital to protect the local
ecosystem, breeds severe environmental scarcity and chronic
poverty.
Other social effects can include decreased agricultural potential,
regional economic decline, population displacement and a disruption
of
legitimized
institutions
and
social
relations.
Most
significantly, these scarcities can, either individually or in
combination, generate forces and processes which contribute to
violent conflict among groups within society.
Such scarcities may act to strengthen group identities based on
ethnic,
class
or
religious
differences,
most
notably
by
intensifying competition among groups for ever dwindling resources.
At the same time, they can work to undermine the legitimacy of the
state and its capacity to meet challenges. As the balance of power
gradually shifts from the state to the challenging groups, the
prospects for violence increase. Such violence tends to be
subnational, diffuse and persistent.
States may prove capable of avoiding suffering and social stress by
adapting to scarcities. They can pursue programs and policies which
encourage more sustainable resource use. Alternatively, a state may
disengage itself from reliance on scarce resources by producing
goods and services less dependent on such resources. The resulting
products could then be traded for items which local scarcities
preclude the state from producing. More often, however, countries
lack
the
social
and
technical
ingenuity
needed
to
adapt
successfully to the shortages they face.

[56]
10 Apr 2000: LTC Kurt F. Ubbelohde: Freshwater Scarcity in the Nile River
Basin53, US Army War College
â&#x20AC;&#x2022;According to a growing body of literature, scarcity of freshwater
to meet the many needs of Third World countries is rapidly
escalating. Furthermore, many of the remaining exploitable sources
of freshwater are in river basins shared by two or more sovereign
states. These facts present the potential for violent conflict over
water unless affected states can develop and use their common water
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resources in a cooperative, sustainable, and equitable manner. The
United States, in its National Security Strategy and Foreign
Affairs Policy, has called attention to the problem of resource
scarcity as having important implications for American security.‖

[57]
Sep 2010: Bundeswehr: Peak Oil: Security Policy Implications of Scarce
Resources54
Effects of Peak Oil on Armed Forces
Severe impediments to mobility as a consequence of peak oil would
have a considerable effect on all German security bodies, including
the Bundeswehr.
In the long run, not only all societies and economies worldwide but
armed forces as well will be faced with the various and difficult
challenges
of
transformation
towards
a
―post-fossil‖
age.
Implications for Germany: A markedly reduced mobility
of the
German Armed Forces would have various consequences – not only for
the available equipment and training, but also for their (global)
power projection and intervention capabilities. Given the size and
complexity of many transport and weapon systems as well as the high
standards set for qualities like robustness in operation,
alternative
energy and drive propulsion systems would hardly be
available to the necessary extent in the short term. One of the
consequences to be initially expected would be further cutbacks in
the use of large weapon systems for training purposes in all
services, thus raising the need for more ―virtualised‖ training.
However, effects on current and planned missions would most likely
be even more severe. Deployment to the theatre of operations, the
operation of bases and the mission itself are considerably more
energy- and above all fuel-intensive than the mere upkeep of armed
forces.
[..] Peak oil, however, is unavoidable. This study shows the
existence of a very serious risk that a global transformation of
economic and social structures, triggered by a long-term shortage
of important raw materials, will not take place without frictions
regarding security policy. The disintegration of complex economic
systems and their interdependent infrastructures has immediate and
in some cases profound effects on many areas of life, particularly
in industrialised countries.

[58]

2010: White House: National Security Strategy55:
Challenges like climate change, pandemic disease, and resource
scarcity demand new innovation. Meanwhile, the nation that leads
the world in building a clean energy economy will enjoy a
substantial economic and security advantage. That is why the
Administration
is
investing
heavily
in
research,
improving
education in science and math, promoting developments in energy,
and expanding international cooperation. Transform our Energy
Economy: As long as we are dependent on fossil fuels, we need to
ensure the security and free flow of global energy resources. But

without significant and timely adjustments, our energy dependence
will continue to undermine our security and prosperity. This will
leave us vulnerable to energy supply disruptions and manipulation
and to changes in the environment on an unprecedented scale.

[59]
2012: January: Department of Defense: Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership:
Priorities for the 21st Century Defense56:
In this resource-constrained era, we will also work with NATO
allies to develop a ―Smart Defense‖ approach to pool, share, and
specialize capabilities as needed to meet 21st century challenges.
[..] Whenever possible, we will develop innovative, low-cost, and
small-footprint approaches to achieve our security objectives,
relying
on
exercises,
rotational
presence,
and
advisory
capabilities.
[..] A reduction in resources will require
innovative and creative solutions to maintain our support for
allied and partner interoperability and building partner capacity.
However, with reduced resources, thoughtful choices will need to be
made regarding the location and frequency of these operations. [..]
The balance between available resources and our security needs has
never been more delicate.

[60]
Dec 2012: U.S. Forest Service: Report Predicts a Strain on Natural
Resources Due to Rapid Population Growth57.
U.S. Forest Service report outlines how a growing population and
increased urbanization in the next 50 years will drain the nation's
natural resources including water supplies, open space, and
forests.
Agriculture Under Secretary Harris Sherman had this to say about
the report: "We should all be concerned by the projected decline in
our nation‘s forests and the corresponding loss of the many
critical services they provide such as clean drinking water,
wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration, wood products and outdoor
recreation."

[C] Failure to implement Sustainable Security Military
Doctrine, to apply laws of Nature/Ecology to legally
differentiate between Sustainable and Unsustainable
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What is Sustainable Consumption and Procreation Behaviour?:
[61]
In Peace seekers have no plan for enduring peace58, Dr. Jack Alpert argues
that Peaceniks failure to move society from conflict to peace, their establishment of
never ending or honoured ―peace accords, moral codes, acts of economic justice, and
environmental laws, are like traffic signals‖ which ―cause people to relinquish
freedoms‖ but, ―do not stop (change) the behaviors that increase scarcity, conflict, and
environmental destruction‖59: ―result from a faulty perception of what increases or
decreases conflict. Where, peace seekers have acted as if conflict is caused by bad
leadership maybe they should have acted as if trends in conflict are driven by trends
in scarcity. Maybe they would have been more successful if they acted as if trends in
scarcity are driven by the collective behaviors of 6 billion people. That while each
individual acts benignly to achieve personal objectives the unintentional result is an
increase in scarcity and conflict.‖
[61.1] Another reason for ignoring the above view of human conflict – according to
Dr. Alpert -- is that peace seekers, even when successful at restraining the police,
military or mediating hostilities, do not change our course toward conflict. They only
delay it. In the process, peace seekers consume the very energy required to change the
things that would make societies head toward peace.
[62]
In Human Predicament: Better Common Sense Required: The Future of
Social Conflict60, Dr. Jack Alpert challenges us to answer two questions
AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence Jurists sincerely concerned with the violent
consequences of scarcity, have so far failed to ask themselves:
[62.1] If Peace and conflict are defined not as descriptions of behaviour between
nations, but as trends describing social conditions. Put differently: Conflict is not
defined as the violence between neighbours and nations, but as the unwanted
intrusion of one person‘s existence and consumption behaviour upon another person.
[62.2] There are two kinds of conflict: Direct: he took my car, he enslaved me, he
beat me, he raped me, he killed me; and Indirect. Indirect intrusions are the byproduct of other people's behaviour. ‗All the trees on our island were consumed by our
grandparents,‘ is an indirect intrusion of a past generation on a present one. ‗The rich
people raised the price of gasoline and we can't afford it,‘ and ‗The government is
offering people welfare to breed more children‘ are current economic and demographic
intrusions by one present group on another present group.
[62.3] System conflict is the sum of intrusions experienced by each constituent,
summed over all the constituents. A measure of the existing global conflict is the sum

of six billion sets of intrusions. A measure of South Africa‘s conflict is the sum of 50
million sets of intrusions.
[62.4] Using this definition of conflict, any AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence
legislator or Jurist sincerely concerned about whether and how South Africa‘s socioeconomic and political system is moving towards peace or towards conflict; by
determining the answers to the following questions:
A.

How many children per family leads to peace; or conversely how many
children per family, contributes to greater resource scarcity, and exponential
increase in conflict, i.e. an individuals‘ ‗breeding war combatant‘ status?
[According to the research of Dr. Jack Alpert61, the answer is one child per
family]

B.

How much consumption relative to the nation‘s footprint carrying capacity
leads to peace; or conversely how much consumption relative to the nations
bio-capacity per person, contributes to greater resource scarcity, and
exponential increase in conflict, i.e. an individuals ‗consumption combatant
status‘?

What are the Consequences of Unsustainable Consumption and
Procreation Behaviour?:
[63]
In the absence of AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence determining the answers to
the aforementioned questions, and implementing Jurisprudence in accordance
thereto; Dr. Alpert provides proof how AnthroCorpocentric Jurisprudence Suicide
Freight Train has as much chance of muddling through the coming ‗Falling Man
Syndrome‘ (‗I‘ve fallen 90 stories in the past 5 seconds and nothing bad has happened
yet‖ | ―In 200 years, our endorsement of the Inalienable Right to Breed and consume
has resulted in the exponential consumption of over half of the Earth's resources, and
nothing bad has happened yet...‖) Crisis of Conflict, as an individual sitting in an
unbelted car crash. (Non-Linearity and Social Conflict62)

The Ozymandias Parade, 1985 by German-American Artist,
Edward Kienholz of Hope, Idaho and Berlin, Germany. An
American warlord straddles a debilitated Judeo-Christian
skeleton. In his hands he holds an electromagnetic signalling
device as well as a stick with the carrot symbols of JudeoChristian religions, representing supposed â&#x20AC;&#x2014;peaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;.

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Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded for Reducing Scarcity: 0
Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded for Reducing Overpopulation: 0
Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded for Reducing Overconsumption: 0
900 Vietnam63, 40 Iraq and Afghanistan64 Veterans returned their
‗bullshit‘ medals to U.S. Congress and NATO.
Nobel Peace Laureates returned their ‗War is Peace‘ Whore Medals
to Nobel Committee: 0
In Valour of Ignorance, Homer Lea‗s perspective of a nations
traitor enemies, are (I) those ―high or low‖ who only regard
[the Nation] in a parasitical sense, as a land to batten on and
grow big in, whose resources are not to be developed and
conserved for the furtherance of the Republic‗s greatness, but
only to satisfy the larval greed of those who subsist upon it‗s
fatness;
and
(II)
International
Arbitrationists
and
Disarmamentists who advocate on behalf of disarmament and
arbitration without understanding the true origins of war: ―Only
when arbitration is able to unravel the tangled skein of crime &
hypocrisy among individuals can it be extended to communities &
nations. As nations are only man in the aggregate, they are the
aggregate of his crimes and deception and depravity, and so long
as these constitute the basis of individual impulse, so long
will they control the acts of nations.‖

[64]

What is a Credible Peace Treaty?:

[65]
Æquilibriæx Jurisprudence considers a credible peace treaty to be one which (a)
recognizes Scarcity induced conflict; and (b) consequently includes legal requirements
which define peaceful vs. non-peaceful (scarcity combatant) type of procreation and
consumption behaviour. There can only be a credible sustainable peace, if both parties
abide by the treaty to avoid contributing towards the creation of scarcity, by
overpopulation or overconsumption of their nation‘s resources.
[66]
Consequently a credible peace treaty must include a clear definition of what is
and is not peaceful vs. non peaceful behaviour, and consequently whether each
country is moving towards sustainable peace or towards conflict, by clarifying:
A.

How many children per family leads to peace; or conversely how many
children per family, contributes to greater resource scarcity, and exponential
increase in conflict, i.e. an individuals‘ ‗breeding war combatant‘ status?
[According to the research of Dr. Jack Alpert65, the current answer –
worldwide -- is one child per family]

B.

How much consumption relative to the nation‘s footprint carrying capacity
leads to peace; or conversely how much consumption relative to the nations

[68]
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of
categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific
advances. The will of the Swedish philanthropist inventor Alfred Nobel established
the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine,
Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded
as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics,
chemistry, peace, and economics.
[69]

Sustainable Security or ‘War is Peace’ Whore Prize?:

[69.1] The Norwegian Nobel Committee‘s Nobel Peace Prize is a ‗War is Peace‘
Whore Prize. Its mandate is to award ‗Peace Prizes‘ to individuals who "work for
fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for
the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
[69.2] Not one of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prizes has ever been awarded to any
individual who addresses the root causes of war, by educating and advocating on
behalf of Sustainable Security: living in harmony with nature‘s carrying capacity, by
reducing overpopulation and overconsumption, which are the primary causes of
resource scarcity.
[69.3] If the Nobel Peace Prize was committed to supporting Peace based upon
Sustainable Security, the recipients of its Peace Prize would be individuals and
organizations focussed on promoting Sustainable Security Peace Congresses which
address the Scarcity induced causes of conflict, who are committed to eliminating the
AnthroCorpocentric ‗Control of Reproduction‘ Human Farming War Economy Racket
paradigm.
[69.4] The Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee continues to refuse to address
the role of overpopulation and overconsumption as root cause factors of resource
scarcity pushing society to conflict and war, where surplus populations are used as
standing armies, and how those profiteering from overconsumption use their profits to
promote pretend peace congresses and pretend Nobel Peace Prizes, awarding War is
Peace Whore Prizes to perpetuate the ‗Control of Reproduction‘ Human Farming War
Economy Racket paradigm.
[70]
International Law: Sustainable Security, or ‘War is Peace’ Whore
Treaties?:
[71]
Every International Peace Treaty which has failed to implement Sustainable
Security Military Doctrine, recognizing Scarcity induced Conflict by legally

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differentiating between Sustainable (Peaceful) and Unsustainable (Scarcity
Combatant) Procreation and Consumption behaviour; is not a ‗credible‘ Sustainable
Security Peace Treaty, but is a credible ‗War is Peace‘ Whore Treaty, effectively
endorsing the perpetuation of the ‗Control of Reproduction‘ Human Farming Poverty
Pimping War Economy Racket.

Five Car Stud, 1969-72, by German-American Edward Kienholz. This is a life size
depiction of a black man caught ‗race mixing‘. It represents a group of white men
castrating a black man as his white girlfriend watches. The figures are life-size
mannequins wearing masks, illuminated by the headlights of four cars and a pickup
truck, focussed on the center detailing the men who arrived to castrate and sterilize
the ‗Nigger‘, whom they have discovered drinking with a white woman.

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[A] Masculine Insecurity: Foundation of AnthroCorpocentric
Jurisprudence’s Human Farming ‘Control of Reproduction’
War Economy Racket:
―Masculine Insecurity: The moment in every man's life when he
questions the size of his schlong.‖ - Urban Dictionary
―The male does not have an erection .. The penis is in a state
of erection, as long as the man is in a state of excitement. If
something interferes with this excitement, the man has nothing.
And in contrast to practically all other kinds of behaviour, the
erection cannot be faked .. a man, after all, is a man for only
a few minutes; most of the time he is a little boy .. in that
aspect which for many a man is the proof that he is a man.‖ Erich Fromm66

Lama Drukpa Kunley lived in the 15-16th century (aka ―Mad Saint‖ or "Divine Madman"
or Madman from Kyishodruk) for his unorthodox ways of painting Thunderbolt of
Flaming Wisdom Erect Phallus‗ on walls, to shock the uppity and prudish Buddhist
clergy. Traditionally erect penis symbols in Bhutan were to drive away evil spirits &
malicious gossip.
"Representation of female nudity is conventionally a blatant sign of reduction of the
female to sexuality [...] Phallic imagery that reminds men of their self-centeredness is a
counterculture, not a celebration of the male. It is a condemnation of the unchecked male
ego, rather than a rigid fiesta of all things phallocentric." - Dasho Karma Ura, president
of the Centre for Bhutan Studies in the capital of Thimpu

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―Threaten a man's masculinity and he will assume more macho
attitudes: Masculine overcompensation is the idea that men who
are insecure about their masculinity will behave in an extremely
masculine way as compensation. I wanted to test this idea and
also explore whether overcompensation could help explain some
attitudes like support for war and animosity to homosexuals. I
found that if you made men more insecure about their
masculinity, they displayed more homophobic attitudes, tended to
support the Iraq War more and would be more willing to purchase
an SUV over another type of vehicle.‖ – Daniel Aloi67

[72]

Eve’s Seed: History and ‘Control of Reproduction’ Religion of Masculine

Insecurity:
―What is
Voltaire

history?

The

lie

that

everyone

agrees

on...‖

–

[73]
In Eve‘s Seed: Masculine Insecurity, Metaphor, and the Shaping of
History, and Eve‘s Seed: Biology, the Sexes and the Course of History, Robert
McElvaine described it thus: ―Karl Marx had it wrong. Class has, to be sure, been a
major factor in history; but class itself is a derivative concept that is based on the
ultimate causative power in history: sex. Marx‗s famous formulation must be revised:
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of struggles based on the
division of our species into two sexes, jealousies emanating from this division,
exaggerations of the differences between the sexes, misunderstandings about sexual
reproductive power, and metaphors derived from sex. Together, these closely related
matters constitute the most important, but largely neglected, set of motive forces in
human history. Control -- or the claim of control -- over the means of reproduction
has been even more fundamental to history than has control of the means of
production...
[73.1] Robert McElvaine ―throws down the gauntlet to academics and nonspecialists alike, daring a radical rethinking of the basic 'truths' on which cultures
have been constructed.‖ He argues that ―there is nothing unique to Islam about male
insistence on the subordination of and male control over women and their bodies.‖
McElvaine says misogynistic rulers may be religious fanatics, but their religion is not
Islam, but Woody Allen‗s religion in his 2001 movie, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion:
―insecure masculinity‖.
[73.2] Eve's Seed reviews ―some 94 centuries of human history, stretching from
8,000 B.C.E. and the invention of agriculture through the Middle Ages‖, to 20th
century America, explaining how and why sexually insecure – ―not-a-woman‖ – men
seek validation of their manhood by pursuing power, and have used their power to
disproportionately influence the shaping of cultures.
Daniel Aloi (02 August 2005): Men overcompensate when their masculinity is threatened, Cornell study shows, Cornell
University http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/aug05/soc.gender.dea.html
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[73.3] According to John Pettegrew, Deepening the History of Masculinity and
the Sexes: ―Vitally important to early economic and political history (bringing such
changes as the creation of substantial material surplus and the rise of large states
and war), agriculture—what McElvaine describes as the first of two "megarevolutions"—also sparked a massive male "backlash," as the female invention of
planting crops and animal husbandry undermined the male role as hunter. Among
the masculinist responses, men took over agriculture and invented war, as women
became relegated to increasing the population needed for the new social order.‖
[73.4] Subsequent cultural consequences being the ―conception misconception‖, that
men held all procreative power, and women were simply the dirt, wherein the seed
was planted, which led to the assumption that the God-Creative-Force is male. The
second mega-revolution occurred in the 16th century with the rise of geographic
mobility and the marketplace. Manhood became associated with possessive
individualism, however this conflicts with mans natural state towards association and
cooperation formed during humanity‗s long history of hunting in groups.
[73.5] Women can do all the important things that men can (although, because of
physical differences, in some areas not as well, on average), but there are some
essential things that women can do that men cannot: bear and give birth to children
and nourish them from their bodies.
[73.6] Because of this relative incapacity, many men suffer, largely subconsciously,
from what might be termed "womb envy" and "breast envy," or even the "nonmenstrual syndrome."
[73.7] To compensate for the things that they cannot do, men tell women that they
may not do other things. Which activities women are excluded from varies from one
culture to another, but some form of the procedure can be found in all societies. (A
striking example of this practice in our own culture can be seen in a statement a
Catholic bishop made in 1992: "A woman priest is as impossible as for me to have a
baby.")
[73.8] Because they cannot compete with women's capabilities in the crucial realms
of reproduction and nourishing offspring, men generally seek to avoid a single
standard of human behavior and achievement. They create separate definitions of
"manliness" which are based on a false opposition to "womanliness." A "real man" has
been seen in most cultures as "notawoman."
[73.9] The "notawoman" definition of manhood leads men greatly to exaggerate the
genuine, but small, differences between the sexes. Far from being gender-benders,
men tend to be genderextenders. This produces the fallacious, but virtually universal,
idea that women and men are "opposite sexes." This way of thinking can accurately be
termed a bi-polar disorder.
[73.10]

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human and proceeds to define man by its supposed vast differences from that
standard, people do not like to see themselves in negative terms, so men have
generally sought ways to transform woman into a negative, thus making man
positive.
[73.11] These basic tendencies have existed throughout history, including what is
inaccurately called "prehistory," but during the vast majority of human existence both
sexes had obviously essential roles. Women seemingly produced the children,
nourished and cared for them, and also provided a large portion of the food for the
group through gathering. Men provided meat through hunting and had the bulk of the
responsibility for protecting the group from predators. This added up in many huntergatherer societies to some approximation of equality between the sexes.
[73.12] Human life -- and the situation of both sexes -- was radically changed by the
invention of agriculture, which in all likelihood was accomplished by women. These
changes were so dramatic that they comprise one of two mega-revolutions in human
existence.
[73.13] Many ancient myths (including, most notably, chapters 3 of the Book of
Genesis) constitute allegories for the invention of agriculture by women (Eve's eating
from the Tree of Knowledge) and its long-term consequences (the loss of what seemed
in distant retrospect to have been a pre-agricultural paradise in which people lived
easily, without work, simply picking fruit from trees, and man having to go forth and
till the soil to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow). The "Fall of Man" is a
metaphor for an actual fall of men.
[73.14] Agriculture moved Homo sapiens from what ecologists refer to as a Kselected reproductive strategy (limited resources make it appropriate to have a small
number of offspring and invest heavily in each) to an r-selected reproductive strategy
(abundant resources relative to population make it possible and desirable to have a
large number of offspring).
[73.15] This meant that the development of agriculture greatly enhanced the
importance of one of the traditional female roles. Women would now be called upon to
spend more of their lives in reproduction and less in production of food and other
resources.
[73.16] The development of methods for the intentional production of food (animal
herding as well as agriculture) substantially devalued what men had traditionally
done. Hunting was no longer needed and defense against other species declined in
importance as groups of humans settled in growing numbers in farming areas into
which predators ventured less frequently than their paths had crossed those of
human hunter-gatherers.
[73.17] The loss of value in their traditional roles left men adrift, seeking new
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accurately be seen as a Neolithic and early Bronze Age backlash or "masculinist
movement."
[73.18] As men sought new roles, they took over what had previously been
considered female roles. Agriculture itself was one of these. By the time plow
agriculture began (ca. 4000 BCE), men were displacing women in the fields.
[73.19] At this point there arose an almost irresistible metaphor, the very
widespread acceptance of which has shaped (or, more accurately, misshaped) human
life through all of recorded history. The apparent analogy of a seed being planted in
furrowed soil to a male's "planting" of semen in the vulva of a female led to the
conclusion that men provide the seed of new life and women constitute the soil in
which that seed grows. This metaphor has remained with us throughout history and
it continues to mislead us in profound ways down to the present.
[73.20] The seed metaphor reversed the apparent positions of the sexes in regard to
procreative power. What had always appeared to be a principally female power was
transformed into an entirely male power. No longer apparent bystanders in
reproduction, men now claimed to be the reproducers, while women were reduced
from the seeming creators to the soil in which men's creations grow. Women were left
with all the work of procreation, but men now took all the credit.
[73.21] During the Neolithic Age, then, women both ceased to be major producers
(as men took over the production of plant food along with continuing their traditional
responsibility for providing animal food) and ceased to be seen as having reproductive
power.
[73.22] The woman-made world of agriculture had, paradoxically, become a man's
world to a degree unprecedented in human existence. Hell hath no fury like a man
devalued.
[73.23] The belief that men have procreative power led inevitably to the conclusion
that the supreme Creative Power must also be male. The toxic fruit that grew from
the seed metaphor was male monotheism.
[73.24] The combination of the belief that God (or the god who is the ultimate
creator) is male with the notion that humans are created in God's image yielded the
inescapable conclusion that men are closer than women to godly perfection. Thus the
line from the misconceptions about conception emanating from the seed metaphor to
the belief, given its classic expressions by Aristotle, Aquinas, and Freud, that women
are deformed or "incomplete" men is clear and direct.
[73.25] As is suggested by the fact that the root of the word authority is author, it is
the erroneous idea that men are the "authors" -- the creators -- that has formed the
largely unspoken but pervasive basis for male authority throughout history. A clear
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of" his children. A father was thought to be the creator of "his" children and so he was
granted the right to take away the life he was supposed to have given.
[73.26] The seed metaphor and the mistaken conclusions that followed from it
enabled men to stand womb envy on its head. The reversal was given its most
influential religious authority in the Bible. The human female is named woman
(meaning "out of man") in Genesis 2 because we are told that the first woman was
born from a man. And in Genesis 3 woman's creative power is reclassified as a curse
and burden: "in pain you shall bring forth children."
[73.27] The reversal of womb envy found its strongest "scientific" authority in
Aristotle's Generation of Animals, where he argued that the great defect in women is
that they lack generative power. In earlier times, when the male role in procreation
was not comprehended, men had seemed like "infertile women" or "deformed women."
Aristotle asserted that it was the other way around. By contending that menstrual
fluid is a weak form of semen, lacking in the male fluid's life-giving powers, he also
reversed the non-menstrual syndrome. He was saying, in effect, that men have the
good genital discharge and menstrual bleeding is just a weak, infertile form of the
powerful male secretion.
[73.28] Once the seed metaphor had sprouted into the idea that God is male and so
women are inferior, the original "notawoman" definition of manhood took on new and
more menacing implications. Now what had been an essentially horizontal division
became a clearly vertical one: traits and values associated with women were not
simply classified as improper for men, but as inferior.
[73.29] The total subordination of women throughout recorded history is but the
first part of the devastating legacy of the Neolithic backlash and the seed metaphor.
Equally important has been the concomitant suppression in men of all values, ideas,
and characteristics associated with women and so defined as inferior.
[73.30] Since many of the values classified as "feminine" (such as compassion,
cooperation, nurturing, and self-sacrifice) are essential for the well-being of human
societies, ways had to be found to bring them back, at least to a degree. This was
accomplished principally through a series of male religious and philosophical figures,
between the sixth century BCE and the first century CE, ranging from Confucius and
the Buddha through the later Hebrew prophets and Jesus. These men preached the
values that had been defined as feminine to men as well as women.
[73.31] Religion has played a paradoxical role in the shaping of history based on
sex. On the one hand, most religions since the rise of male monotheism have provided
major weapons in advancing the argument of male superiority and female
subordination. The paradox lies in the fact that religions have also been the principal
means through which the more "feminine" characteristics and values have been urged
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[73.32] The need to appeal to men was at cross purposes with the objective of
religions to restrain some of the maladaptive traits that are classified as "masculine"
(e.g. quick resort to violence, hierarchical domination, and competitiveness). Men
were unlikely to listen to women telling them to act in ways that had been defined as
"feminine," so a male priesthood seemed essential. But the men who took over
Christianity had by the fourth century gone a long way towards "efeminating"
(removing its feminine characteristics) the religion.
[73.33] The basic problem insecure males have with sexual equality is that it
threatens to re-establish a single human standard, one that includes areas in which
men are unable to compete. Hence such men react fiercely and attempt to reinforce
the wall they have erected between the sexes.
[73.34] The desperate attempts of some men to re-institute a sexual apartheid with
clear ideas of hierarchical difference between the sexes can be seen all around us.
Examples include the escalation of violent misogyny in popular music, the rise of
anorexic chic for women and super body-building as the ideal for men, the Catholic
Church's reiteration of its insistence that women can never be priests, the redoubled
efforts of the Nation of Islam, Promise Keepers, and the Southern Baptist Convention
to subordinate women, widespread homophobia, the order of the Taliban government
in Afghanistan that all women be veiled and all men grow beards, the immense sales
of a book whose title asserts that men and women are from different planets, and the
proliferation of vulgar sexual language that is rooted in the claim that men are
superior to women.
[73.35] The first step in attempting to deal with the misshaping of the human
experience that has been a direct consequence of the misunderstanding of
reproductive power that took hold some six thousand years ago is to reject the idea
that God is male. The second is to try, at last, to realize just how catastrophic the
consequences of accepting the implications of the seed metaphor have been and to
accept instead the conclusions about sexual equality towards which our modern
understanding of the true nature of procreative power point.
[73.36] To confront how masculine insecurityâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s demand for the Control -- or the
claim of control -- over the means of reproduction has been even more fundamental
to our cultural history and cultural institutions, than has control of the means of
production...

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[B] Legislation of Occupational Licences for hundreds of
occupations, sometimes even from children for lemonade
stands, allegedly required to protect those occupations
consumers from incompetent service and products.

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Legislators Allege that Licensing of Occupations is to Ensure Occupational
Competence:
[73.37] AnthroCorpocentric Legal doctrine holds that individuals are issued licences
- to own a gun, drive a car, practice Law, watch television, obtain credit, earn a living
as a professional, fish, hunt, sell liquor, operate a business, get married – once they
have fulfilled certain skills or informed consent commitment requirements required
for the particular licence.
[73.38] According to Kleiner, Morris: Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality
or Restricting Competition?68: ―Occupational licensing is defined as a process where
entry into an occupation requires the permission of the government, and the state
requires some demonstration of a minimum degree of competency. The state usually
creates a nongovernmental licensing board with political appointees, public members
and members of the occupation to oversee the regulated occupations. Generally,
members of the occupation dominate the licensing boards. The agency must usually be
self-supporting by collecting fees and registration charges from persons in the licensed
occupations. [..] The main beneﬁts that are suggested for occupational licensing
involve improving quality for those persons receiving the service. Occupational
licensure creates a greater incentive for individuals to invest in more occupationspeciﬁc human capital because they will be more able to recoup the full returns to
their investment if they need not face low-quality substitutes for their services
(Akerlof, 1970; Shapiro, 1986).‖
[73.39] The Institute of Justice Report: License to Work69, documents the ludicrous
AnthroCorpocentric legislative idiosyncrasies surrounding 102 low income occupations
that require licences in various US states, from shampooers to barbers:
Ordinarily, landing a job means filling out an application,
submitting a resume and interviewing with a prospective employer
who will determine your fitness for the position. Or, if you want
to be your own boss, it means setting up shop and convincing
potential customers that your services are worth paying for. But
for a growing segment of Americans, gainful employment requires
convincing someone other than a prospective employer or potential
customer of their value. It requires convincing the government. An
―occupational license‖ is just that—government permission to work
in a particular field. To earn the license, the aspiring worker
must clear various hurdles: earn a certain amount or type of
education, complete specialized training, pass an exam, attain a
certain grade level, pay fees and more.
An ―occupational license‖ is, put simply, government permission to
work in a particular field. To earn the license, an aspiring worker
must clear various hurdles, such as earning a certain amount of
education or training or passing an exam. In the 1950s, only one in
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20 U.S. workers needed the government‘s permission to pursue their
chosen occupation. Today, that figure stands at almost one in
three. Table 170 provides the complete list of the 102 lower-income
occupations included in this report.
The list covers a diverse collection of occupations.
Some serve
the needs of children, such as child care workers, preschool
teachers and teacher assistants. Others come from the health care
sector, like dental assistants, opticians, psychiatric workers and
dietetic technicians. The service sector is well represented with
occupations including barbers, bartenders, cosmetologists, massage
therapists, manicurists and skin care specialists, as are the
building trades and the transportation sector.
Some of these occupations are commonly recognized as licensed, such
as barbers and contractors, while others may come as a surprise—
home entertainment installers, florists, interpreters for the deaf,
interior designers and upholsterers, to name a few.
Some
occupations, such as milk sampler, conveyor operator, still machine
setter and various forms of testers, may be unfamiliar altogether.
Demographically, the people who work in the 102 low- and moderateincome occupations studied are somewhat different than the general
population, as shown in Table 2.1271. By definition, they make less
money; they are also more likely to be male and racial/ethnic
minorities and to have less education. Particularly noteworthy is
the percentage of low- and middle-income workers with less than a
high school diploma—15.7 percent.
As documented, a number of the
102 occupations studied require the completion of at least 12th
grade, a requirement that effectively bans a substantial number of
people from those occupations.

[73.40] Bacon‘s Rebellion: Occupational Licensing and the Earnings Gap72
says:
Think of occupational licensing as the white collar‘s answer to
labor unions. Licensed occupations don‘t engage in collective
bargaining or go on strikes, but they do lobby statehouses around
the country to erect barriers to entry in their profession, thus
restricting competition and enabling members of the profession to
maintain higher earnings than they could in a more open labor
market.
Occupational licensing has risen in direct proportion to which
trade unionism has declined. In 1950, only 5% of the United States
workforce belonged to occupations requiring a license. In 2006, 29%
of the workforce did. Additionally, licensing requirements have
tended to become more restrictive over time.
Occupations include almost every profession associated with health
care and extend to work as obscure as African hair braiding and
Asian eyebrow threading, writes Courtney O‘Sullivan in an issue
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brief73 for the National Center for Policy Analysis. She concludes:
―Many jobs could be performed by unlicensed individuals at a lower
cost, without sacrificing safety or quality. Licensing decreases
the rate of job growth by an average of 20 percent and costs the
economy an estimated $34.8 billion to $41.7 billion per year, in
2000 dollars, reports the Reason Foundation.‖
Cosmetologists defending their occupational turf doesn‘t contribute
measurably to the wealth gap but physicians, lawyers, physical
therapists, optometrists and other higher-end professions defending
their turf does. Just one more example of how the rich and
privileged wield the coercive power of government to stay rich and
privileged.

[74]
An article in Mental Floss: 6 Illicit Lemonade Stands Towns Had to Shut
Down74, states, among others: ―Three tween girls in Midway, Ga. had to close their
lemonade stand since they lacked a ―business license, a peddler‘s permit, or a food
permit, all of which would have cost them $50 a day to obtain for temporary use or
$180 for the year.‖
[74.1] It documents cases of children whose lemonade and cookie stands were shut
down, as a result of alleged ‗failure to get a licence‘: Lemonade: 1983: Belleair, Florida;
1988: Watchung, New Jersey; 1993: Charleston, South Carolina; 2010: Portland,
Oregon; 2011: Midway, Georgia; 2011: Appleton, Wisconsin. Cookies: 2011: Savannah,
Georgia; 2011: Hazelwood, Missouri..
[74.2] The North Colorado Gazette reports in: Little ‗criminals‘ operating
lemonade stands75, that:
New York has expanded beyond cracking down on lemonade stands. A
councilman in a New York suburb called police when he saw two 13year-old boys selling cupcakes, brownies and Rice Krispy treats for
$1 apiece without a permit.
A website called lemonadefreedom.com features a map showing all of
the states and locations where governments have either actually
shut down lemonade stands or declared them to be illegal unless a
permit was issued.
The number of stands shut down was large enough that the
organization declared Aug. 20 to be Lemonade Freedom day and called
for parents to set up stands in protest of the government
crackdowns on children.
Robert Fernandes, creator of the site, said while it may appear to
be a trivial thing, the governments that are shutting down the
stands are actually doing harm to the children.

[74.3] In Townhall: I Tried to Open a Lemonade Stand76, John Stossel, from
FoxNews tells the story of his attempts to open a Lemonade Stand in New York City.
The legal hoops an individual has to jump through to open a simple lemonade stand in
New York City are:
1. Register as sole proprietor with the County Clerk's Office (in
person)
2. Apply to the IRS for an Employer Identification Number.
3. Complete 15-hr Food Protection Course!
4. After the course, register for an exam that takes 1 hour. You
must score 70 percent to pass. (Sample question: "What toxins are
associated with the puffer fish?") If you pass, allow three to five
weeks for delivery of Food Protection Certificate.
5. Register for sales tax Certificate of Authority
6. Apply for a Temporary Food Service Establishment Permit. Must
bring copies of the previous documents and completed forms to the
Consumer Affairs Licensing Center.
Then, at least 21 days before opening your establishment, you must
arrange for an inspection with the Health Department's Bureau of
Food Safety and Community Sanitation. It takes about three weeks to
get your appointment. If you pass, you can set up a business once
you buy a portable fire extinguisher from a company certified by
the New York Fire Department and set up a contract for waste
disposal.

[74.4] He reports that â&#x20AC;&#x2022;We couldn't finish the process. Had we been able to schedule
our health inspection and open my stand legally, it would have taken us 65 days.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;

[C] Total Legislative Failure to legislate Breeding /
Parenting licences, to (a) protect the rights of unborn
and unwanted children, from unloving and incompetent
parenting; and (b) prevent overpopulation.

â&#x20AC;&#x2022;We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call
upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if
it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the
State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by
those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with
incompetence. It is better for all the world if, instead of
waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them
starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are
manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that
sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting
the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Buck v.
Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) 1927

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―It seems there is pretty much a consensus that when it comes to
things that have the possibility to .. negatively impact the
lives of people or society in general, regulation is desirable.
Considering this, there is one sort of licence that is
conspicuous by its absence: a licence to breed. .. Even the SPCA
checks out prospective dog owners and their property before
allowing them to adopt an animal. A system that requires
prospective parents to demonstrate the necessary material means
and parenting knowledge to look after children before being
allowed to procreate would be the ideal solution to the problem.
Unfortunately, uncontrolled breeding has left humanity far too
stupid to implement something of the sort.‖ - Michael Coetzee,
Licence to Breed, 12 August 2009, The Citizen
―What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st.
destroyed
by
infanticide,
as
among
the
Chinese
and
Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other
nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it
is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows,
by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.‖
- James Madison, 1791, U.S. President

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In Should Parents be Licensed77, Peg Little writes:
―You need a licence to drive a car, own a gun or fish for trout.
You don't need a licence to raise a child. But maybe you should.‖
Because parenthood is regarded as one of the most natural things in
the world, most people will react very negatively to any suggestion
that a license should be required before being allowed to
procreate. That would be like forcing people to have a license in
order to breathe or walk – being a parent is a right rather than a
privilege such as driving. But should it be?
We must keep in mind that there is a lot at stake for the children
themselves. When a two people become parents, there is suddenly at
least one more individual whose interests must be taken into
consideration: the child. Shouldn‘t children only be born into
homes where they are wanted? Shouldn‘t children only be born into
homes where the parents know what they are doing, know how to raise
kids, and can provide the children with a psychologically and
emotionally healthy atmosphere? Of course – no one can deny that
this would be ideal. The question is, should the state do anything
to legally enforce it?
We have to face the fact that there are people out there who are
parents and who probably shouldn‘t be. They may lack the
intellectual, the emotional, or the psychological resources to
raise children properly. Being a parent isn‘t easy – it‘s not for
everyone, even though there are social pressures in society for
everyone to have kids. Thus, the question isn‘t so much whether
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encouraged to refrain from having kids. Instead, the question is
whether the state should step in enforce such an ideal.
People already accept the role of the state in deciding who does
and does not deserve to be a parent when it comes to custody cases,
foster care, and adoption. Roger McIntyre writes: ―Can you imagine
the public outcry that would occur if adoption agencies offered
their children on a first-come-first-served basis, with no
screening process for applicants? Imagine some drunk stumbling up
and saying, ―I‘ll take that cute little blond-haired girl over
there.‖‖
We could also describe a similar scenario in the context of cloning
human beings. Someday this will be possible, but do you really
think that it will happen without state regulation? On the
contrary, there will be all kinds of regulations. Those doing the
cloning will have to ensure that they don‘t create human beings who
are sick or will be suffering from chronic pain. Cloners will have
to provide good reasons for what they are doing — they won‘t be
allowed to create their own armies, for example, or clone for the
sake of personal gratification.
In other words, we don‘t permit irresponsible adoption and we
wouldn‘t permit the irresponsible creation of human life via
cloning. Nevertheless, we do permit irresponsible parenthood and
creation of life through natural means. Isn‘t there a bit of a
contradiction there? If people don‘t have a right to adopt and
don‘t have a right to create life via cloning, why do we think that
they have a right to create life via sexual reproduction? What is
it about the creation of life that would qualify as a ―right‖ in
the first place? Surely it can‘t be a ―right‖ merely because it is
a natural activity.
Even if it is a right, though, no right is absolute. Is there a
right to have children who would suffer from serious, painful, and
debilitating diseases? Is there a right to have children that is
completely decoupled from your responsibility to properly and
adequately raise it?

[76]
In Licensing Parents78, Hugh LaFollett,, Cole Chair in Ethics Professor at the
University of South Florida St. Petersburg, writes:
In this essay I shall argue that the state should require all
parents to be licensed. My main goal is to demonstrate that the
licensing of parents is theoretically desirable, though I shall
also argue that a workable and just licensing program actually
could be established.
My strategy is simple. After developing the basic rationale for the
licensing of parents, I shall consider several objections to the
proposal and argue that these objections fail to undermine it. I
shall then isolate some striking similarities between this
licensing program and our present policies on the adoption of
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children. If we retain these adoption policies--as we surely
should--then, I argue, a general licensing program should also be
established. Finally, I shall briefly suggest that the reason many
people object to licensing is that they think parents, particularly
biological parents, own or have natural sovereignty over their
children.

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[D] Failure to Legislate Breeding/Parenting Licence, an
endorsement of Masculine Insecurity’s use of the
Control of Reproduction as a Weapon of War:

―The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the
poor.‖ ― Voltaire

The Birthday (1964): American-German artist Edward Kienholz: Woman in a Masonic
doctors room (tiled floor), covered in dirt (dirt represents the furrow/earth of a
woman's vagina, where the seed is planted). She is tied down (not consenting) while,
screaming into a bubble (her voice is censored), and giving birth to missiles, implying
Masonic use of women as brood sows for Human Factory Farming War Economy
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―We must all understand that the most potent weapons of war are the
penis and the womb. Therefore, if you cannot convince a group to
control its population by discussion, debate, intelligent analysis
etc., you must consider their action in using the penis and the
womb to increase population an act of war.‖ - Former Municipal
Court Judge Jason G. Brent, Humans: An Endangered Species79
―Every right must be evaluated in the network of all rights claimed
and the environment in which these rights are exercised. If we hold
that every right, ―natural" or not, must be evaluated in the total
system of rights operating in a world that is limited, we must
inevitably conclude that no right can be presumed to be absolute,
that the effect of each right on the suppliers as well as on the
demanders must be determined before we can ascertain the quantity
of right that is admissible. From here on out, ours is a limited
world. Rights must also be limited. The greater the population, the
more limited the per capita supply of all goods; hence the greater
must be the limitation on individual rights, including the right to
breed. At its heart, this is the political meaning of the
population problem.‖ – Garrett Hardin, Limited World, Limited
Rights80, Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa
Barbara, CA

[77]
Insecure Male World Leader‘s advocacy/endorsement of the Control of the Means
of Reproduction as a Weapon of War include President of Algeria: Houari
Boumediene‗s ―wombs of our women will give us victory‖, PLO Leader: Yasser Arafat‗s
‗Palestinian womb is our greatest asset and weapon‘; ANC Leader: Nelson Mandela‗s
―Operation Production‖ forced sex and forbidden contraceptives policy; New Black
Panther Party Member: Dr. Khalid Muhammad ―kill the women as they are the
military manufacturing center‖; Nazi Party: Adolf Hitler‗s ―importance of fertility to
breed an above average number of children‖.

[77.1] Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria, at the United Nations, 1974:
―The wombs of our women will give us victory.‖ [―One day, millions of men will leave
the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go
there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it
with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.‖ (Boumediene was an
ardent supporter of the ANC and SWAPO)]
[77.2] Yasser Arafat: Palestinian Womb is his people‗s greatest asset [Arnon
Soffer, a geography professor at Israel's Haifa University and a lecturer at the Israeli
Army's Staff and Command college, first warned of the impending Jewish
demographic minority in the 1980s, but was widely dismissed. He predicted Arabs
www.jgbrent.com
Limited World, Limited Rights, by Garrett Hardin, Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_limited_world_limited_rights.html
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would outnumber Jews in both Israel proper and the occupied territories by 2010. In
February 2001, the night of his election, Sharon sent an aide to ask Soffer for a copy
of his 1987 treatise about the demographic threat to Israel; it was the same study that
had led Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to declare in the late 1980s that the
"Palestinian womb" was his people's greatest weapon.]
[77.3] Nelson Mandela‗s African National Congress (ANC): ANC ―Operation
Production‖ Policy: During the ANC‗s ―liberation struggle‖ African women were forced
(1) to have sex with ANC cadres, & (2) not allowed to use contraception. Any woman
who refused sex from an ANC cadre or was caught using contraception was detained,
accused of being an 'Apartheid agent', given a People‗s Court trial, the sentence was
usually Necklacing, incl. broken bottles shoved up their vagina81. Johannes
Harnischfeger, Witchcraft and the State in South Africa82: ―Especially evening
assemblies girls had to attend as well: ―They would come into the house and tell us we
should go. They didn't ask your mother they just said ―come let's go.‖ You would just
have to go with them. They would threaten you with their belts and ultimately you
would think that if you refused, they would beat you. Our parents were afraid of
them‖ (quoted by Delius 1996:189). All those opposing the wishes of the young men
were reminded, that it was every woman‗s obligation to give birth to new ―soldiers‖, in
order to replace those warriors killed in the liberation struggle. The idiom of the
adolescents referred to these patriotic efforts as ―operation production‖. Because of
exactly this reason it was forbidden for the girls to use contraceptives. (Delius
1996:189; Niehaus 1999:250)‖
[77.4] New Black Panther Party: Dr. Khalid Muhammad: Kill the White Woman
as the White Man‗s Military Manufacturing Center rolling out reinforcement from
between her legs: In Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad‗s 1993 'Kill the White Man'
speech, at Kean College in Union Township, New Jersey, he stated among others:
―Kill the women cause the women are the military manufacturing center; cause every
nine months they lay down on their backs and reinforcement rolls out from between
their legs. So shut down the military manufacturing center, by killing the white
woman.‖83
[77.5] Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party: ―The selection of a racially highly worthy
wife in itself still does not necessarily mean an improvement of the race. That only
comes when the right mate selection is followed by the breeding of an above-average

Maki Skosana was an ANC comrade who was accused – for no observable reasons – of being an apartheid spy, given a
people‗s court trial and publicly executed by necklacing in July 1985. The TRC made no effort whatsoever to investigate
the motives for shoving broken glass bottles up women‗s vagina‗s who were necklaced. TRC Report: ―Moloko said her
sister was burned to death with a tyre around her neck while attending the funeral of one of the youths. Her body had
been scorched by fire and some broken pieces of glass had been inserted into her vagina, Moloko told the committee.
Moloko added that a big rock had been thrown on her face after she had been killed.‖
www.doj.gov.za/trc/hrvtrans/duduza/moloko.htm
82 German version of published in Anthropopos, 95/2000, S. 99-112
83 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Abdul_Muhammad
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number of children. For what would the elimination of bad hereditary factors from the
folk help, if simultaneously a reproduction of the good hereditary factors was not
preserved and expanded? ... The birth rate will determine the future of our folk. The
number of cribs must be much larger than the number of coffins. Only then can we
offer successful resistance against all arising dangers and turn into deed our right,
which is due us on the basis of our leading position in Europe. … Two weapons are at
the disposal of each folk in the struggle for survival: Its ability to fight and its
fertility. Never forget that the ability to fight of a folk alone can never make it
possible for a folk to survive into the far future, rather that the inexhaustible fountain
of its fertility is also necessary."84
[77.6] Prof Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas, Founder and former
party national chair of Raza Unida Party: ―We have an aging white America.
They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population... I
love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it. We have to eliminate the
gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill
him.‖ - Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas, founder and former party
national chair of Raza Unida Party

[E] Profiting from the absence of Breeding/Parenting
Licence, and the Control of Reproduction of a Surplus
Cannon Fodder Population for the Human Factory
Farming War Economy Racket.
â&#x20AC;&#x2022;War as a general social release. This is a psychosocial
function, serving the same purpose for a society as do the
holiday, the celebration, and the orgy for the individual---the
release and redistribution of undifferentiated tensions. War
provides for the periodic necessary readjustment of standards of
social behaviour (the "moral climate") and for the dissipation
of general boredom, one of the most consistently undervalued and
unrecognized of social phenomena. War fills certain functions
essential to the stability of our society; until other ways of
filling them are developed, the war system must be maintained -and improved in effectiveness.â&#x20AC;&#x2013; - Report from Iron Mountain: On
the Possibility and Desirability for Peace (paragraphs found
respectively on p45 & p4)

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"I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as a member of
our country's most agile military force--the Marine Corps. I
served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major
General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a
high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for
the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I
suspected I was part of a racket all the time. Now I am sure of
it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an
original thought until I left the service." -- Smedley D. Butler
(1881-1940)

[78]

The Human Factory Farm War Economy Matrix:

[78.1]

In True News 13: Statism is Dead - Part 3 - The Matrix85, Stefan

Molyneux says:
Human Factory Farms: ―When you look at a map of the world, you are
not looking at countries, but farms.
Farm Management & Licensing:
―State capitalism, socialism,
communism, fascism, democracy – these are all livestock management
approaches. The most productive livestock are the professionals, so
the rulers fit them with an electronic dog collar called a
―license,‖ which only allows them to practice their trade on their
own farm.‖
Animal Farm Elections: ―To further create the illusion of freedom,
the livestock are allowed to choose between a few farmers, who
provide a few minor choices in how they are managed. They are never
given the choice to shut down the farm, and be truly free.‖
Problem of modern human livestock ownership: challenge of
“enthusiasm”: ―Liberties are granted to the human livestock not
with the goal of setting them free, but to increase their
productivity. Government schools are indoctrination pens to teach
livestock to love the AnthroCorpocentric farm. Of course,
intellectuals, teachers, artists and priests were – and are – well
paid to conceal this reality. You do not have to be livestock. Take
the red pill. Wake up.‖

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Human Factory Farm War Economy Racket: Media Profiteers:
Despite such living nightmares it is often observed that, if not
exactly enjoying war, both soldiers and reporters mourn its
passionate intensity when it is gone, and maybe even yearn to go
back. The protagonist in the Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker
finds family life and shopping grey in comparison to handling
roadside bombs in Iraq. .. "That is the crux of being at war.
You operate outside of society.‖ .. "The horrific, unspeakable
truth of war is that it's fun. My grandfather said to me that
war was the only environment in which men are allowed to love

each other unconditionally, and I think the soldier's hankering
after the battlefield is in large measure to do with that. It's
a sense of belonging, of friendship, of kinship if you like that
you don't find anywhere else in society. People often find that
they belong in war because they suddenly find a connection with
the common humanity of people around them."86

[79.1]

In Why Are Wars not being Reported Honestly (Guardian: 10/10/2010)

John Pilger describes journalists and editors confirming their role as censorship
agents, along similar lines of reasoning as detailed in Dr. T. Michael Maher‗s report:
How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population – Environment Connection,
where PR News churnalists admit they are hoodwinked, but omit to say why they
self-hoodwink/censor themselves.
[79.2]

Pilger‗s documentary The War You Don‘t See87 traces the motivations for

the hoodwinking self censorship back to the father of public relations: Edward
Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud. In Bernays‗s 1928 book Propaganda, he
described the conspiracy of manipulating the public with ―public relations news‖ to
behave as psychologically insecure, dumbed-down, automatonic politically correct
zombie consumers (with a culturally induced preference for sycophantic intellectual
fairness) instead of educating them to be rational self-sufficient ecologically
responsible problem solving citizens (With the courage to practice transparent public
airing of dirty linen dispute resolution). The PR image management / Political Correct
induced suppression of their anger, creates a sterile, fake sycophantic environment,
which ripens in time, when the Human Slaughterhouse Managers are ready to
market their next war, marketed for great profit 88 by the Churnalist Pied Pipers, as
the PR/politically correct obsessed cultural adherent citizens are finally given
approval ―for the release and redistribution of their undifferentiated tensions‖.
[79.3]

According to former Lt Colonel Pentagon employee and current libertarian

politician Karen Kwiatkowsi: "When mainstream media complains about the war -they do so carefully, because too many people in this country benefit in one way or
another from the American warfare-welfare state. To do the right thing at the
national level will cost the government -- Republicans and Democrats -- credibility
(Why did we go? Why didn't we come home sooner?) and budget justification (no war
86

Smith, D (2010/08/06): 'The horrible, unspeakable truth of war is that it's fun', The Guardian.

on terror through occupation and aggression, no need for DHS, or a half trillion a year
Pentagon budget). To do the right thing will cost -- in the short term -- actual jobs in
districts who get tax dollars for products relating to maintenance and expansion of
our global military empire."
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Human Factory Farming War Economy Racket: Corporate Profiteers:

[81]

In War is a Racket, Former USMC General Smedley Butler writes:
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as
something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only
a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for
the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. â&#x20AC;Ś The
trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent
over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100
percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow
the flag.

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I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy
investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should
fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the
Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
And war is the most profitable racket in the world!
There isn't a
is blind to.
"muscle men"
preparations,

trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang
It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its
to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war
and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison.
Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four
months in active military service as a member of this country's
most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all
commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And
during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class
muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers.
In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure
of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had
a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties
remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of
higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil
interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for
the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the
raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits
of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify
Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in
1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light
to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In
China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way
unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say,
a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given
Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his
racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

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In Chapter 2: Who Makes the Profits? USMC General Butler writes:
The World War, rather our brief participation in it, has cost the
United States some $52,000,000,000. Figure it out. That means $400
to every American man, woman, and child. And we haven't paid the
debt yet. We are paying it, our children will pay it, and our
children's children probably still will be paying the cost of that
war.
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are
six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits
-- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three
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limit. All that traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has the money. Let's
get it.
Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed
into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all
put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and
skyrocket -- and are safely pocketed. Let's just take a few
examples: Take our friends the du Fonts, the powder people -didn't one of them testify before a Senate committee recently that
their powder won the war? Or saved the world for democracy? Or
something? How did they do in the war? They were a patriotic
corporation. Well, the average earnings of the du Fonts for the
period 1910 to 1914 were $6,000,000 a year. It wasn't much, but the
du Fonts managed to get along on it. Now let's look at their
average yearly profit during the war years, 1914 to 1918. Fiftyeight million dollars a year profit we find! Nearly ten times that
of normal times, and the profits of normal times were pretty good.
An increase in profits of more than 950 per cent.
Take one of our little steel companies that patriotically shunted
aside the making of rails and girders and bridges to manufacture
war materials. Well, their 1910-1914 yearly earnings averaged
$6,000,000. Then came the war. And, like loyal citizens, Bethlehem
Steel promptly turned to munitions making. Did their profits jump - or did they let Uncle Sam in for a bargain? Well, their 1914-1918
average was $49,000,000 a year!
Or, let's take United States Steel. The normal earnings during the
five-year period prior to the war were $105,000,000 a year. Not
bad. Then along came the war and up went the profits. The average
yearly profit for the period 1914-1918 was $240,000,000. Not bad.
There you have some of the steel and powder earnings. Let's look at
something else. A little copper, perhaps. That always does well in
war times.
Anaconda, for instance. Average yearly earnings during the pre-war
years 1910-1914 of $10,000,000. During the war years 1914-1918
profits leaped to $34,000,000 per year. Or Utah Copper. Average of
$5,000,000 per year during the 1910-1914 period. Jumped to an
average of $21,000,000 yearly profits for the war period.
Let's group these five, with three smaller companies. The total
yearly average profits of the pre-war period 1910-1914 were
$137,480,000. Then along came the war. The average yearly profits
for this group skyrocketed to $408,300,000.
A little increase in profits of approximately 200 per cent. Does
war pay? It paid them. But they aren't the only ones. There are
still others. Let's take leather.
For the three-year period before the war the total profits of
Central Leather Company were $3,500,000. That was approximately
$1,167,000 a year. Well, in 1916 Central Leather returned a profit
of $15,000,000, a small increase of 1,100 per cent. That's all. The
General Chemical Company averaged a profit for the three years
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the profits jumped to $12,000,000. a leap of 1,400 per cent.
International Nickel Company - and you can't have a war without
nickel - showed an increase in profits from a mere average of
$4,000,000 a year to $73,000,000 yearly. Not bad? An increase of
more than 1,700 per cent.
American Sugar Refining Company averaged $2,000,000 a year for the
three years before the war. In 1916 a profit of $6,000,000 was
recorded.
Listen to Senate Document No. 259. The Sixty-Fifth Congress,
reporting
on
corporate
earnings
and
government
revenues.
Considering
the
profits
of
122
meat
packers,
153
cotton
manufacturers, 299 garment makers, 49 steel plants, and 340 coal
producers during the war. Profits under 25 per cent were
exceptional. For instance the coal companies made between 100 per
cent and 7,856 per cent on their capital stock during the war. The
Chicago packers doubled and tripled their earnings.
And let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If
anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers. Being
partnerships rather than incorporated organizations, they do not
have to report to stockholders. And their profits were as secret as
they were immense.
How the bankers made their millions and their billions I do not
know, because those little secrets never become public - even
before a Senate investigatory body. But here's how some of the
other patriotic industrialists and speculators chiseled their way
into war profits.
Take the shoe people. They like war. It brings business with
abnormal profits. They made huge profits on sales abroad to our
allies. Perhaps, like the munitions manufacturers and armament
makers, they also sold to the enemy. For a dollar is a dollar
whether it comes from Germany or from France. But they did well by
Uncle Sam too. For instance, they sold Uncle Sam 35,000,000 pairs
of hobnailed service shoes. There were 4,000,000 soldiers. Eight
pairs, and more, to a soldier. My regiment during the war had only
one pair to a soldier. Some of these shoes probably are still in
existence. They were good shoes. But when the war was over Uncle
Sam has a matter of 25,000,000 pairs left over. Bought -- and paid
for. Profits recorded and pocketed. There was still lots of leather
left. So the leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of
thousands of McClellan saddles for the cavalry. But there wasn't
any American cavalry overseas! Somebody had to get rid of this
leather, however. Somebody had to make a profit in it -- so we had
a lot of McClellan saddles. And we probably have those yet.
Also somebody had a lot of mosquito netting. They sold your Uncle
Sam 20,000,000 mosquito nets for the use of the soldiers overseas.
I suppose the boys were expected to put it over them as they tried
to sleep in muddy trenches -- one hand scratching cooties on their
backs and the other making passes at scurrying rats. Well, not one
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manufacturers wanted to make sure that no soldier would be without
his mosquito net, so 40,000,000 additional yards of mosquito
netting were sold to Uncle Sam. There were pretty good profits in
mosquito netting in those days, even if there were no mosquitoes in
France. I suppose, if the war had lasted just a httle longer, the
enterprising mosquito netting manufacturers would have sold your
Uncle Sam a couple of consignments of mosquitoes to plant in France
so that more mosquito netting would be in order.
Airplane and engine manufacturers felt they, too, should get their
just profits out of this war. Why not? Everybody else was getting
theirs. So $1,000,000,000 -- count them if you live long enough -was spent by Uncle Sam in building airplane engines that never left
the ground! Not one plane, or motor, out of the billion dollars
worth ordered, ever got into a battle in France. Just the same the
manufacturers made their little profit of 30, 100, or perhaps 300
per cent.
Undershirts for soldiers cost 140 [cents] to make and
uncle Sam paid 300 to 400 each for them -- a nice little profit for
the undershirt manufacturer. And the stocking manufacturer and the
uniform manufacturers and the cap manufacturers and the steel
helmet manufacturers -- all got theirs.
Why, when the war was over some 4,000,000 sets of equipment -knapsacks and the things that go to fill them -- crammed warehouses
on this side. Now they are being scrapped because the regulations
have changed the contents. But the manufacturers collected their
wartime profits on them -- and they will do it all over again the
next time.
There were lots of brilliant ideas for profit making during the
war.
One very versatile patriot sold Uncle Sam twelve dozen 48-inch
wrenches. Oh, they were very nice wrenches. The only trouble was
that there was only one nut ever made that was large enough for
these wrenches. That is the one that holds the turbines at Niagara
Falls. Well, after Uncle Sam had bought them and the manufacturer
had pocketed the profit, the wrenches were put on freight cars and
shunted all around the United States in an effort to find a use for
them. When the Armistice was signed it was indeed a sad blow to the
wrench manufacturer. He was just about to make some nuts to fit the
wrenches. Then he planned to sell these, too, to your Uncle Sam.
Still another had the brilliant idea that colonels shouldn't ride
in automobiles, nor should they even ride on horseback. One has
probably seen a picture of Andy Jackson riding in a buckboard.
Well, some 6,000 buckboards were sold to Uncle Sam for the use of
colonels! Not one of them was used. But the buckboard manufacturer
got his war profit.
The shipbuilders felt they should come in on some of it, too. They
built a lot of ships that made a lot of profit. More than
$3,000,000,000 worth. Some of the ships were all right. But
$635,000,000 worth of them were made of wood and wouldn't float!
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somebody pocketed the profits.
It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and
researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of
this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war itself.
This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how
the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way. This
$16,000,000,000 profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy
sum. And it went to a very few.
The Senate (Nye) committee probe of the munitions industry and its
wartime profits, despite its sensational disclosures, hardly has
scratched the surface. Even so, it has had some effect. The State
Department has been studying "for some time"
methods of keeping
out of war. The War Department suddenly decides it has a wonderful
plan to spring. The Administration names a committee -- with the
War and Navy Departments ably represented under the chairmanship of
a Wall Street speculator -- to submit profits in war time. To what
extent isn't suggested. Hmmm. Possibly the profits of 300 and 600
and 1,600 per cent of those who turned blood into gold in the World
War would be limited to some smaller figure.
Apparently, however, the plan does not call for any limitation of
losses -- that is, the losses of those who fight the war. As far as
I have been able to ascertain there is nothing in the scheme to
limit a soldier to the loss of but one eye, or one arm, or to limit
his wounds to one or two or three. Or to limit the loss of life.
There is nothing in this scheme, apparently, that says not more
than 12 per cent of a regiment shall be wounded in battle, or that
not more than 7 per cent in a division shall be killed.
Of course, the committee cannot be bothered with such trifling
matters.

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Corpotocracyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Future as an Afterthought: Peddling the Human Factory

Farming War Economy Racket:
[83.1]

In CIA Agent says War is Eugenics89, Robert Steele, Former CIA Agent

admits that War is Eugenics, profiting from the human farming and culling of
overpopulation. Steele used to believe that wars were caused by accidents, emotions
and ethnic hatred, but as his reading progressed, he realized that War is in fact a
Racket, as USMC General Butler states. Steele agrees that the US military are used
to colonize nations for the benefits of US corporations. But behind the Corporations
are the banks, and behind the banks are a few wealthy banking families, such as the
Rothschilds and Rockefellers. It turns out he alleges that Wars and Genocides, are a
form of Eugenics. They are harvesting profit from people they wish to cull, and if they
can profit from human farming and the culling of the surplus population. The CIA are
89

http://youtu.be/0LqDjk8vhyc

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used by US Corporations, via the US Government to uphold Dictators around the
world, obedient to Corporations. The CIA is a major source of instability around the
world, and this instability, whether intentional or not, is very very very profitable for
a few corporations and banks.
[83.2]

Similarly, in Confessions of an Economic Hitman90, and The Secret

History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth
about Global Corruption91, John Perkins describes his role as one of many
―Economic hit men,‖ who ―are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around
the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports,
rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.‖
[83.3]

His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the

U.S.—from Indonesia to Panama—to accept enormous loans for infrastructure
development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U. S.
corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the
United States government, World Bank and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that
acted like loan sharks—dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments
into submission.

[F] Profiting from the absence of Breeding/Parenting Licence, and
their Control of Reproduction of a Surplus Vote and Poverty Pimp
Fodder Population.
THE POVERTY PIMPS' POEM92
Let us celebrate the poor,
Let us hawk them door to door.
There's a market for their pain,
Votes and glory and money to gain.
Let us celebrate the poor.
Their ills, their sins, their faulty diction
Flavor our songs and spice our fiction.
Their hopes and struggles and agonies
Get us grants and consulting fees.
Celebrate thugs and clowns,
Give their ignorance all renown.
Celebrate what holds them down,
http://www.economichitman.com
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-American-Empire-Economic/dp/0452289572
92 The Poverty Pimps Poem, by Thomas Sowell See: http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/politics/poverty/923-The-PovertyPimps-Poem.html
90
91

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In our academic gowns.
Let us celebrate the poor.
―This is how the game works: public money levied in taxes from
the poor of the rich countries is transferred in the form of
‗foreign aid‘ to the rich in the poor countries; the rich in the
poor countries then hand it back for safe-keeping to the rich in
the rich countries. The real trick, throughout this cycle of
expropriation, is to maintain the pretence that it is the poor
in poor countries who are being helped all along. The winner is
the player who manages to keep a straight face while building up
a billion-dollar bank account‖ – Lords of Poverty, Graeme
Hancock
"When we address the issue of poverty, we really have to look at
the issue of who benefits from poverty, and the fact of the
matter is the wealthy folks benefit from poverty. So in a way
you might say the problem is not so much poverty, as the problem
is, wealth, prosperity, taken to an extreme; that wealth is used
as the measure of value in a culture. In order for a relatively
small percentage of the population to have allot of wealth, you
have to have a very large percentage of the population
essentially acting as slaves. They've got to be impoverished. It
is absolutely to the advantage of the Corporatocracy‘s, to the
people who control our biggest Corporations, to have a mass of
poor people around the world, that they can draw on for labour,
and as long as they remain impoverished, they cannot object to
their resources being taken from them, and we get to exploit
them." - John Perkins on Globalization93

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Vote or poverty pimp fodder armies are as beneficial to their political and poverty

pimping academic and non-profit profiteering racket elite; as cannon fodder are to the
Military Industrial Complex elite.
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In Living on a lifeboat94, Garrett Hardin describes how Multinational

Corporate Profits are the real motive for the alleged ‗humanitarian‘ ‗Food Aid‘ to
Africa:
Following World War II, U.S. agricultural surpluses reached
alarming levels, and storage of excess grain cost the government
millions of dollars per year--even as the food deteriorated and
became inedible. A solution had to be found, and in 1954 President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Agricultural Trade Development
Assistance Act into law.
The program, known as Public Law 480, benefited the U.S. by
decreasing food surpluses and by creating new markets for its
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFC18pFvo1g
Garrett Hardin (1974): Living on a Lifeboat, BioScience, vol 24(10), pp. 561-568 and in The Social Contract, Fall 2001
issue. Currently available in Stalking the Wild Taboo.
93
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agricultural products....
..... Our experience with Public Law 480 clearly reveals the
answer. This was the law that moved billions of dollars worth of
U.S. grain to food-short, population-long countries during the past
two decades. When P. L. 480 first came into being, a headline in
the business magazine Forbes (Paddock and Paddock 1970) revealed
the power behind it: "Feeding the World's Hungry Millions: How It
Will Mean Billions for U.S. Business."
And indeed it did. In the years 1960 to 1970 a total of $7.9
billion was spent on the "Food for Peace" program, as P. L. 480 was
called. During the years 1948 to 1970 an additional $49.9 billion
were extracted from American taxpayers to pay for other economic
aid programs, some of which went for food and food-producing
machinery. (This figure does not include military aid.) That P. L.
480 was a give-away program was concealed. Recipient countries went
through the motions of paying for P. L. 480 food -with IOUs. In
December 1973 the charade was brought to an end as far as India was
concerned when the United States "forgave" India's $3.2 billion
debt (Anonymous 1974). Public announcement of the cancellation of
the debt was delayed for two months; one wonders why.
"Famine-1975!" (Paddock and Paddock 1970) is one of the few
publications that points out the commercial roots of this
humanitarian attempt. Though all U.S. taxpayers lost by P. L. 480,
special interest groups gained handsomely. Farmers benefited
because they were not asked to contribute the grain -it was bought
from them by the taxpayers. Besides the direct benefit there was
the indirect effect of increasing demand and thus raising prices of
farm products generally. The manufacturers of farm machinery,
fertilizers, and pesticides benefited by the farmers extra efforts
to grow more food. Grain elevators profited from storing the grain
for varying lengths of time. Railroads made money hauling it to
port, and shipping lines by carrying it overseas. Moreover, once
the machinery for P. L. 480 was established, an immense bureaucracy
had a vested interest in its continuance regardless of its merits.
Very little was ever heard of these selfish interests when P. L.
480 was defended in public. The emphasis was always on its
humanitarian effects. The combination of multiple and relatively
silent selfish interests with highly vocal humanitarian apologists
constitutes a powerful lobby for extracting money from taxpayers.
Foreign aid has become a habit that can apparently survive in the
absence of any known justification.

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According to Graeme Hancock‘s Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige and

Corruption of the International Aid Business:
―At $60 billion a year [in 1989]… aid is already quite large enough
to do harm. Indeed, as this book has argued at some length, it is
often profoundly dangerous to the poor and inimical to their
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at vast expense, have devastated the environment and ruined lives;
it has supported and legitimised brutal tyrannies; it has
facilitated
the
emergence
of
fantastical
and
Byzantine
bureaucracies staffed by legions of self-serving hypocrites; it has
sapped the initiative, creativity and enterprise of ordinary people
and substituted the superficial and irrelevant glitz of imported
advice; it has sucked potential entrepreneurs and intellectuals in
the
developing
countries
into
non-productive
administrative
activities; it has created a ‗moral tone‘ in international affairs
that denies the hard task of wealth creation and that substitutes
easy handouts for the rigours of self-help; in addition, throughout
the Third World, it has allowed the dead grip of imposed
officialdom to suppress popular choice and individual freedom.
―Aid has its defenders, not least the highly paid public-relations
men and women who spend millions of dollars a year justifying the
continued existence of the agencies that employ them. Such
professional communicators must reject out of hand the obvious
conclusions of this book: that aid is a waste of time and money,
that its results are fundamentally bad, and that — far from being
increased — it should be stopped forthwith before more damage is
done.
―Whenever such suggestions are made the lobbyists throw up their
hands in horror. Despite some regrettable failures, they protect,
aid is justified by its successes; despite some glitches and
problems, it is essentially something that works; most important of
all — the emotional touch, the appeal to the heartstrings — they
argue with passion that aid must not be stopped because the poor
could not survive without it. The Brandt Commission provided a
classic example of this line of thought: ‗For the poorest
countries,‘ it told us flatly in its final report, ‗aid is
essential to survival.‘
―Such statements, however, patronise and undervalue the people of
the poor countries concerned. They are, in addition, logically
indefensible when uttered by those who also want us to believe that
‗aid works‘. Through history and pre-history all countries
everywhere got by perfectly well without any aid at all.
Furthermore, in the 1950s they got by with much less aid than they
did, for example, in the 1970s — and were apparently none the worse
for the experience. Now, suddenly, at the tail end of almost fifty
years of development assistance, we are told that large numbers of
these same countries have lost the ability to survive a moment
longer unless they continue to receive ever-larger amounts of aid.
If this is indeed the case — and if the only measurable impact of
all these decades of development has been to turn tenacious
survivors into helpless dependents — then it seems to me to be
beyond dispute that aid does not work.
―On the other hand, if the statement that ‗aid
presumably the poor should be in a much better
before they first began to receive it half a
then aid‘s job should by now be nearly over

works‘ is true, then
shape than they were
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possible to begin a gradual withdrawal without hurting anyone.
―Of course, the ugly reality is that most poor people in most poor
countries most of the time never receive or even make contact with
aid in any tangible shape or form: whether is it present or absent,
increased or decreased, are thus issues that are simply irrelevant
to the ways in which they conduct their daily lives. After the
multi-billion-dollar ‗financial flows‘ involved have been shaken
through the sieve of over-priced and irrelevant goods that must be
bought in the donor countries, filtered again in the deep pockets
of hundreds of thousands of foreign experts and aid agency staff,
skimmed off by dishonest commission agents, and stolen by corrupt
Ministers and Presidents, there is really very little left to go
around. This little, furthermore, is then used thoughtlessly, or
maliciously, or irresponsibly by those in power — who have no
mandate from the poor, who do not consult with them and who are
utterly indifferent to their fate. Small wonder, then, that the
effects of aid are so often vicious and destructive for the most
vulnerable members of human society.‖

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Other resources of critics exposing the Lords of Poverty Foreign Aid Programs

According to Ntokozo Khumalo, a business writer, producer & report who has

been with CNBC Africa, Africa Business Review and eNCA Africa Edition, in: The
dirty -- breeding war -- games the South African government plays to win
votes99, the African National Congress use welfare: child support grants to breed the
ANC thousands of co-dependent poverty stricken ANC voters, or vote fodder.
[89]

According to Meshack Mabogoane, founder of Federal Africa100, the ANC pimps

its own people into poverty by its conscious and deliberate ―abnormal governmentsponsored

As Lt. Col. Ralph Peters writes in Constant Conflict102, the ultimate struggle is
cultural.
[..] Contemporary American culture is the most powerful in history,
and the most destructive of competitor cultures. [..] We are Karl
Marx's
dream,
and
his
nightmare.
Secular
and
religious
revolutionaries in our century have made the identical mistake,
imagining that the workers of the world or the faithful just can't
wait to go home at night to study Marx or the Koran. Well, Joe
Sixpack, Ivan Tipichni, and Ali Quat would rather "Baywatch."
America has figured it out [..] our cultural power will hinder even
those cultures we do not undermine.
[..] Our cultural empire has the addicted--men and women
everywhere--clamoring for more. And they pay for the privilege of
their disillusionment. [..]Our military power is culturally based.
[..] Hollywood is "preparing the battlefield," and burgers precede
bullets. The flag follows trade. .. [..] .. Our unconscious
alliance of culture with killing power is a combat multiplier no
government, including our own, could design or afford. We are
magic. And we're going to keep it that way.
[..] The action films of a Stallone or Schwarzenegger or Chuck
Norris rely on visual narratives that do not require dialog for a
basic understanding. They deal at the level of universal myth, of
pre-text, celebrating the most fundamental impulses (although we
have yet to produce a film as violent and cruel as the Iliad). They
feature a hero, a villain, a woman to be defended or won—and
violence and sex. Complain until doomsday; it sells. The enduring
popularity abroad of the shopworn Rambo series tells us far more
about humanity than does a library full of scholarly analysis.
When we speak of a global information revolution, the effect of
video images is more immediate and intense than that of computers.
Image trumps text in the mass psyche, and computers remain a
textual outgrowth, demanding high-order skills: computers demarcate
the domain of the privileged. We use technology to expand our
wealth, power, and opportunities. The rest get high on pop culture.
If religion is the opium of the people, video is their crack
cocaine. When we and they collide, they shock us with violence,
but, statistically, we win.

[..] Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and
economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive.
The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world
safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those
ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.

In Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity103, Sandbacka writes
Cultural imperialism is the economic, technological and cultural
hegemony of the industrialized nations, which determines the
direction of both economic and social progress, defines cultural
values, and standardizes the civilization and cultural environment
throughout the world.
The whole world is becoming
the same kind of technical
knowledge, fashion, music
metropolitan mass culture is

a cultural common market area in which
product development, the same kind of
and literature, the same kind of
manufactured, bought and sold.

Western ideologies, political beliefs, western science, western
laws and social institutions, western moral concepts, sexual
symbols and ideals of beauty, western working methods and leisure
activities, western foods, western pop idols and the western
concept of human existence have become objectives, examples and
norms everywhere in the world.
But there are too many dispossessed people who have amassed a few
western material possessions but no longer have any birthplace,
home or final resting-place.

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In What is Cultural Imperialism?104, Matti Sarmela, Former Professor of
Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki from 1973 to 2000, and
a founder and the first president of the Finnish Anthropological Society, describes the
inner psychological and corporate workings of cultural imperialism.
He draws an ideological profile of the cognitive and ideological factors that ―go some
way towards explaining the hegemony of western culture and the process that is
leading to the establishment of a common world culture‖ of compulsive development,
which has destroyed the ecological equilibrium of ethnic communities; as all cultures
are blindly encouraged to blindly adopt their the dogma of compulsive development,
as an alleged ‗superior cultural system‘. He concludes that it is time for sociologists
and cultural anthropologists to examine their roles in this dogma of ‗compulsive
development‘: ―Should they merely record the changes that take place, perhaps even
Carola Sandbacka (ed.) 13-36. Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity. Transactions of the Finnish
Anthropolological Society 2. Helsinki 1977 (in Finnish 1975)
104 www.kotikone.fi/matti.sarmela/culturimperialism.pdf
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establish new disciplines such as urban anthropology or mass anthropology? Should
they concentrate on collecting into museums what can still be salvaged, setting up
memorials to dead cultures? Are there no longer any cultures that are not western or
westernizing?â&#x20AC;&#x2013;
1. The ideological profile of cultural imperialism
Industrial development is customarily considered to be the path
towards a better future for the whole of mankind, material squalor,
hunger, sickness and the rawness of nature becoming, in the
process, things of the past. Development on a global scale and
colossal industrial production since the war have been accompanied
by a blind faith in scientific and technical progress and in the
ability that western social planning, environmental planning,
educational planning, family planning and leisure planning will
before long solve all the problems confronting man. [..]
1) The ideology of the technological imperialists. To western man,
culture is the antithesis of nature; it implies the subjugation of
nature in order to build a technological, man-made world, in order
to establish civilization, the acme of which is the metropolis. The
ideology of the subjugation of nature has reached its climax in the
conquest of outer space, but it has also supplied the moral
justification for the white man's voyages of discovery, for
colonialism, the slave trade, the unscrupulous exploitation of
natural resources and the overseas aid plans of today: the purpose
of these being to yoke all nations to the world trade network of
the industrialized countries.
2) The maximization of culture; the ideology of total efficiency.
The ideal of the competitive, mass-producing society is to achieve
total efficiency. It strives to maximize production, organizational
efficiency and human performance in science, art and sport.
3) The cult of modernism; the ideology of novelty. Western culture
does not set much store by the unchanging and traditional: it
accords its highest accolade to the unconventional and the
revolutionary. Western civilization has established the cult of the
genius for those who are instruments of change. The worship of
modernization and the faith in technological progress culminated in
the radicalism of the sixties, the heyday of the student, when it
was believed a new society could be created by means of surveys. In
this scientific utopia the non-democracy dictated by traditions
such as the institution of marriage and sexual norms would no
longer exist. Instead unremitting progress, liberation and change
would lead eventually to an optimal ethical or ideological
democracy. But has this development merely led to the dictatorship
of the men of change, of the planners?
4) The ideology of productivity. Both on the group and individual
level cultural choices and decisions are made in the first instance
on the basis of materialist economic planning, of cost accounting,
of a 'scientific' assessment of the relations between input and
output. Industrial culture is in fact being transformed into an
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statistical curve, index and trend mechanism, from which human,
historical and traditional elements must be eliminated as
disruptive factors.
5) International standards; the ideology of the supranational. In
industrial production, science, art and every other human activity,
western culture recognizes no higher goal than internationalism:
the standards of the metropolis hold sway. The change in the
structure of western societies has taken the form of adaptation to
market economy, to international trade; the response of the
ecosystem to international standards. The techno-structures are the
most rigidly standardized of all, part of a sterile, professional
mass culture employing standardized values, to reach standardized
‗scientific‘ and ‗artistic‘ decisions, a culture in which personal
and individual solutions are more illusory than real. Social
planning and architecture that come up to the professional
international mark have created standardized modern environments,
the fruit of the very latest research into metropolitan design, in
which life is played out with the same cultural props, the same
basic services.
6) The mechanistic system of knowledge and causal relations; the
ideology of technical solutions. The functional basis of western
society is a classification of the natural world into a cognitive
system that only recognizes mechanical, factorial and technical
causal connections and solutions. The most important logical model
for scientific thought throughout the sixties was factor analysis.
The material and human waste problems resulting from the production
process are eliminated by means of special mechanisms; a
technological waste process grows up side by side with the
production process – sewage plants, asylums, approved schools,
community homes and police stations. New sicknesses are cured by
new medicines, the debilitating effects of mass production and the
conveyor belt are solved by the invention of ergonomics. The
establishment of counter-technologies, counter-organizations and
counter-cultures corrects technological blunders – thus development
becomes synonymous with the fragmentation of society into ever
smaller and weirder compartments.
7) Group centricity; the ideology of organization. Western society
is one-sidedly based on marching masses, which become socialized
into one all-powerful cybernetic machine; it is based on group
centricity and faith in organization. The mechanistic or atomistic
structure of society has led to the formation of increasingly
specialized and efficient organizations but also to an intensifying
struggle between them for material development, power and growth.
Their policy of growth demands that the individual become totally
dependent on them so as to strengthen mass identity and solidarity.
The manipulation of these masses requires ever more authoritarian
personality
cults,
the
dogmatization
of
ideals,
a
strict
demarcation of interest-areas and an intensified information war.
In the western world power has become concentrated in the hands of
organizations, which use discontent, gain, progress and social
change as instruments of unscrupulous manipulation.

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8) The opinion industry; the ideology of the control of knowledge.
Scientific and technical progress has also maximalized knowledge.
On the other hand it has made communications, the mass media,
manipulation, information shocks, industrial opinion-moulding,
propaganda and advertising its most important instruments of power
and influence. Western society permits any form of manipulation,
even if it is systematically one-sided, as long as its aims are
economically
useful,
commercially
successful
or
otherwise
progressive. Western man has long accepted the necessity of
organizational lies.
2. Super-culture and local culture
[..] The industrialized west has adopted a common technological
culture that satisfies international standards and that has made
possible the realization of the imperialists' centuries-old dream
of yoking the entire world's resources with a systematic global
production process. This megalomania has given birth to the superculture, which prides itself on building the largest reservoir in
the world, the largest atomic power station and the longest
conveyor-belt. Western culture is a monument to its own planners,
executive directors, party leaders and developmentalists, a culture
evaluated statistically in terms of size, productivity, and
material objects, development trends and consumer indices. In this
culture the man in the street has increasingly less value
collectively or culturally, as a worker or as a consumer. The high
standard of living of western society has delivered nations from
the tyrannies of nature and submitted them to the tyrannies of man.
Primitive societies had nothing of value to offer in the creation
of this new society that worshipped development â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in the spectrum
of human ways of life, the two stand irreconcilably at opposite
poles.
So-called primitive cultures are essentially small communitycultures that gain their ethnic characteristics through adaptation
to a specific environment. The individual's relationship with his
community
is
the
prime
relationship
in
non-technological
communities. The individual has his own permanent place in his
community and he can comprehend this ethno-social organism as an
entity. Many small ethnic communities have learnt to live in accord
with nature rather than at the mercy of nature and thus aim at a
state of permanent equilibrium. Their cognitive world picture,
their intra-cultural system of knowledge, is not geared to
unscrupulous and egocentric exploitation or to a greed for growth
but to their life as a community. Increased productivity and growth
are not seen as ends in themselves; production is only expanded
enough to guarantee the traditional subsistence of future
generations.
Research
has
demonstrated
that
small
ethnic
communities are cultures totally regulated by tradition and
governed by the traditional world order, the folk culture.
[..]
3. The death of ethnic culture

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In industrialized countries the functioning of the production
process necessitates professional specialization. Society is
compartmentalized into thousands of sub-cultures; civil servants,
technicians, salesmen and workers each have their own 'culture'
made up of professional or interest groups that are supranationally and non-locally orientated, cogs in the machinery of
development, progress and power, that use professional jargon as a
means of manipulating professional discontent. In differentiated
societies the most varied social and religious groups and groupcultures can be found but real regional or folk culture is dead.
To be more precise, folk culture is outlawed, for the scientifictechnical society has turned culture itself into an organization.
Culture has become the exclusive responsibility of vocationally
trained specialists, cultural architects, whose job specifications
and qualifications are defined by law, and who are all members of
unions. Folk culture can only emerge within the limits of the money
specifically allocated to it from the public purse and under the
direction of professional cultural leaders. The supranational,
compartmentalized eco-system has no room for a spontaneous, do-ityourself folk or regional culture. The industrialized countries can
show imposing and unprecedented achievements in science, art and
sport, in the vast metropolitan sets and technical props of
professional culture. But what culture has the industrial nomad or
the urban lemming? Can restaurants, nightclubs, the entertainment
world be called culture? Does the weekly visit to the supermarket
constitute a cultural pilgrimage?
4. The fragmentation of cultural identity
Cultural identity is the term commonly employed to describe
internalized cultural consciousness, identification with one's own
culture. In anthropology, cultural identity is most often defined
as identification with an ethnic group and its culture, the
communal spirit. With the disintegration of small communities, it
has become increasingly difficult to define ethnic identity. Soviet
scientists have coined the term 'ethno-social organism' to describe
the process of economic, social and cultural change which takes
place in particular historical circumstances within an ethnic
community having a common 'ethno-genesis' i.e. history. This
historically fatalistic concept is coolly scientific â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as is the
description of an ethnic community as an ecosystem. It takes no
account of the way in which human beings experience their own
culture and the changes that take place in it, nor questions the
necessity or value from the human point of view of change
perpetrated in the name of development and progress.
Cultural identity is perhaps generally understood to mean the
concept of reality held by a member of a particular culture, the
way in which he comprehends and motivates his own socio-cultural
existence. A vital part of cultural identification is therefore the
community's concept of the purpose or meaning of life around which
the individual organizes his own existence. In this respect global
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concept of the meaning of life and the emergence of numerous
substitutes. The sense of regional identity has been submerged in
that of national identity, which was perhaps latent anyway. More
significantly, the individual has come to identify himself with the
culture represented by groups sharing the same profession,
interests or ideals. The pivotal point of cultural existence for a
member of an urban culture offering multifarious possibilities and
possessing multifarious values is a material or ideological
objective: a house or property of some other sort, a professional
career, a position of influence in a political or religious group
or in some other organization. A member of industrialized society
may identify himself with his objective, provided that this seems
sufficiently worthwhile in the long-term and allows him to make
full use of his potentialities. But for a far greater number, who
are just factory fodder, the meaning of life lies in identification
with the consumer society.
Changes of identity and the essential content
identities could perhaps be tabulated as follows:

of

different

Regional
identity
(spatial/ethnic
identity)
includes
the
individual's personally lived-out experience of culture in the
environment in which he lives: the social intercourse that links an
individual to his community in his capacity as a member of society.
Regional identity also includes a fundamental sense of continuity
and permanence, social awareness and the idea of the community as
the most important framework of existence. The individual sees his
own immediate circle as part of the regional community and his own
existence as part of a social entity, which manifests itself in
communal symbols, traditions and systems of communication.
Group identity means nowadays identification with a meta-group for
which the individual has no physical significance. In the
differentiated society groups are little more than organizations
whose members are united by common professional, political or
ideological interests, the struggle between interest groups or the
fear of losing rights. On the other hand social alienation and
compartmentalization has led to a search for a real feeling of
belonging through ideological and religious group fervour, occult,
mystical
and
magical
movements,
transcendentalist
or
parapsychological cults, social-psychological group therapy itself and,
to a certain extent, communes and other regressive back-to-nature
movements. These movements represent a counter-culture and have no
functional status in industrialized society.
Goal identity is identification with the illusions of the creative,
development-minded and forward-looking cultural architects for whom
work and achievement are the purpose of Life. Or equally well
compensatory alienation and escape from the realities of monolithic
culture.
Mass identity is identification with the industrial mass production
society as a consumer of the technological products of a
specialized metropolitan culture. The meaning of life is to be
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the technically maximal entertainments and stimuli offered by the
professionals:
restaurants,
sport,
television,
or
so-called
creative hobbies and art-forms, or the new technological challenges
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; parachuting, slalom and motor racing. Existential experiences
provided by specialized departments of the welfare state are the
be-all and end-all of human existence.
5. The imperialism of the production process
Economic development today is dominated by supranational, world
trade organizations, common market federations between states, and
supranational or multinational giant enterprises. In the market
economy countries the development of monopolies, mergers and the
emergence of mammoth corporations is a fact; in the language of the
politics of commerce it is called integration or the international
division of labour. The cultural and ecological changes that have
taken place as a result of adaptation to world trade in every
country are self-evident:
1) The regional concentration
mammoth industrial areas.

of

production,

the

emergence

of

2) The establishment of a metropolis-periphery relationship between
central and subsidiary industrial areas with all its economic,
social and cultural consequences (governmental and cultural
centralization).
3) Increasing specialization in
international division of labour.

production

4) Adaptation of the structure of production
organizations to supranational marketing.

demanded
plants

by

and

the
sales

5) Product development and production planning determined
international standards, standardization of cultural products.

by

6) Policy of a centralized labour force. The individual seeking
employment becomes the new nomad of the industrial society.
7) Death of small ethnic communities.
The nations of the world have been made to run on terms laid down
by industrial, urban employment and world trade, they have been
concentrated around standardized services, packed into the endless
rows of identical suburban and slum-land boxes. Modern man is
himself a mass product, the cheapest, most insignificant and
dispensable structural unit of a worldwide production process. The
continual intensification of technological growth is a prerequisite
of the functioning of political organizations; the political
ideologies of the world compete amongst themselves to bring about
scientific and technical development â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on terms laid down by
international trade. The international production process has given
birth to the mechanism of political, obligatory development. The
fate of the natural environment and of plant and animal species
threatened by the ever-expanding global production process has
become a subject of universal concern. Ethnic cultures have come
into being as a consequence of their isolation and by a process of
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they are mutations just like the Galapagos sparrows. But the market
economy and the production process do not only trample underfoot
aboriginal cultures: every single small regional community and
traditional ethnic culture is threatened by eco-catastrophe.
6. The imperialism of marketing mechanisms
The continued development of the industrialized countries is
dependent on marketing their culture in total. The further
production moves from the satisfaction of basic needs, the more
important become sales organizations, the creation of consumer
demand and the regulation of consumption. Cultural experts have
paid too little attention to the fact that the most efficiently
organized thing in the world is diffusion, and that it is the
marketing
organizations
â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
direct
and
indirect
advertising,
newspapers and magazines, the entire worldwide awareness industry â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
that create the framework of meaning in the modern folk culture.
Folk culture is merely the response of the people to external,
supranational, commercial and political influence and regulation, a
more or less uniform manifestation of mass identity, in which
national, ethnic and regional differences are primarily reflected
in terms of consumer potential, the unequal distribution of
economic resources over the world.
In the market economy culture everything that is produced must be
sold, the tools of culture, science, art, even man himself. The
cultural eco-system of the mass production society is only kept
going by marketing which is more important than the tools of
production, surplus and capital. The marketing mechanisms are
approaching scientific and economic perfection: marketing has not
for a long time meant the advertising and distribution of
individual products but integrated marketing in which the demands
of marketing influence the earliest stages of planning and
production down to the smallest detail. In a world becoming
economically unified the mechanisms of marketing are in their turn
becoming global:
1. Supranational marketing creates common illusions throughout the
world, the cultural values of the urban consumer
2. Marketing is the sale of the total technological way of life. It
would be cynical to deny that much else of the western way of life
is not introduced into other cultures along with western
technology. One cannot buy a transistor without also buying western
pop music, a television without advertising breaks, gangster films
and violence, a glossy magazine without pornography. No part of
western culture can be bought as an isolated product, one machine
requires another and thus one is launched on the slippery slope of
western consumption.
In non-technological cultures the mechanization of one phase of
production assumes the mechanization of the other phases and, in
order to function efficiently, every machine requires all the rest
of the related western technology. And when agricultural production
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also be automated. In the tough world of international technology,
formal speeches about gentle development from a national base and
individual choices are more often than not empty rhetoric.
The marketing of western cultural development has created
supranational illusions of the metropolitan living-style: the
modern furnishings of the white European, his de luxe kitchens,
night clubs, yachts and sports cars. During the last decades whole
armies of writers and pen-pushers have sold a fairy-tale urban
world, have swooned in ecstasies of self-expression describing the
narrow-mindedness of small communities, the tangled web of social
relationships, social controls, the absence of real stimulus. Man
has been made to believe that in his little urban box he can spend
a more remarkable life than anywhere else or ever before. There he
can liberate himself entirely from social relationships and social
controls and devote his time exclusively to himself and his own
consumption.
7. The imperialism of the social order
To the expert in international politics the world might seem to be
an arena of national interests and cultural contradictions. Yet in
every state behind the political violence, cruelty, terror and the
fight for justice a centralized social order is being created which
in terms of its structure and governmental machinery more and more
conforms to world-wide governmental models. In every country of the
world centralized, technically efficient, economic and political
organizations are being created, western bureaucracies and social
hierarchies which bury beneath them the communal order (the result
of adaptation to local circumstances) and standardize the sociocultural structures within each state.
In the construction of this state machinery, regional ethnic
cultures (tribalism) are seen as a threat to national unity and to
patriotism.
In
many
countries
the
creation
of
a
uniform
governmental social order and a state culture is political
expediency, the unadorned construction of a mechanism of power.
This is sometimes realized in the name of civilization and social
development, sometimes in the name of a future of equality for the
various racial groups. All too often the western machinery of
manipulation called political democracy is employed in the creation
of a uniform, supra-national, technocratic culture, even as a tool
of the utilitarian politics of supranational economic organizations
and interests. In developmental phraseology ethnic cultures are
synonymous with primitiveness, witchcraft, feudalism and despotism:
these labels of a Eurocentric cultural and social science are
surely infinitely more suited to describe the governmental and
political reality of the western countries than non-technological
ethnic cultures. Political bureaucracy has established the concept
that the small ethnic communities of the Third World exemplify nondemocracy whereas the organized, western political mechanism of
power exemplifies democracy.
The centralized state machinery is more and more energetically
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from the level at which the individual, the man in the street,
lives. In many countries internal colonialism prevails. In many
developing countries the palatial parliament and administrative
buildings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; monuments to western architecture â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are the tombstones
of the country's true ethnic culture. In many countries the small
community world has been transformed into a benevolent dictatorship
of smiling party representatives and popular development leaders.
8. The imperialism of the transmission of culture
In the civilized modern state enculturation, the transmission of
culture
to
new
generations
has
become
increasingly
institutionalized: it has become the responsibility of official
organizations,
which
conform
to
supranational,
metropolitan
standards. The cultural heritage of every race comes more and more
under the control of 1) The western educational system and 2) The
supremacy
of
western
communication.
A
standardized
western
epistemological superstructure standardizes the cognitive, ethical,
social
and
historical
world
picture
of
every
race.
The
technological superpowers and the communications controlled by the
west, not forgetting audio-visual mass communication and the pop
culture, are instituting a cultural imperialism that is rapidly
supplanting ecologically and socially localized knowledge with
globally standardized knowledge.
In every country, regardless of its ideology, the western
educational system is pursuing didactic goals that are increasingly
standardized. The developing countries are following suit in the
creation by professionals of educational communities that are all
organized along similar lines and are alike in what they teach. For
the technological culture of the west cannot be bought without the
white European's ways of thinking, cultural values and ideology of
mechanistic knowledge. Today western super-culture is being
transmitted to more and more of the world's schoolchildren.
The technological and political super-culture renders utterly
devoid of meaning the ethno-science and intra-cultural systems of
local communities, the fundamentals of social and existential
order, the explanations of life here and in the hereafter, the
whole communicative, symbolic and empirical system of causal
relations on which traditional culture is based. In their place the
super-culture supplies the western mechanisms of socialization, the
humiliating and authoritarian educational system that instils
organized behaviour and competition as also the aggressiveness, the
unrelenting fight for status symbols, for power and the instruments
of power of the white man.
In many Third World countries the educational system is as
inheritance from colonial times and tuition, at any rate at
university level, takes place in the language of the former
colonial power. Alternatively the responsibility for curriculum
planning may lie with a small 'upper class' that has itself
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The use of tribal languages is frowned upon by nation-states bent
on centralization and the consolidation of power nor are these
languages considered suitable for the transmission of the
technological knowledge of the white man. The educational
technocrats seem more interested in method than content, the aim
being to create the most efficient methods for transmitting western
knowledge to new generations and for establishing a uniform global
educational system.
9. The imperialism of the assessment of cultures
The super-culture has its own superior machinery for the assessment
of cultures. Just as individuals are assessed in terms of
intelligence quotients and capability scales, the nations of the
world are also assessed in terms of technocratic units of
measurement. Every aspect of a culture has its own quantitative
unit of measurement: 1) Those of development: gross national
product, volume of exports, industry index. 2) Those of 'happiness'
i.e. the standard of living: how many material possessions each
person/household has. 3). Those of 'unhappiness': starvation,
sickness,
mortality.
These
cultural
statistics
have
become
indispensable to western society as they provide the scientific
basis for social and economic planning.
Today their compilation is the responsibility of the World Bank.
Although these statistics are accepted as gospel and find their way
from encyclopaedias to school textbooks and the pages of the
weeklies, the basis on which they are compiled is not known and
their veracity is un-certifiable. The Eurocentric writing of
history is paralleled by the imperialism of western statistics.
In the assessment of cultures a simplistic scale is employed which
merely measures the extent of technological development. On this
basis small, self-supporting communities find themselves at zero on
the scale for they can produce no export figures, no indices of
urbanization â&#x20AC;&#x201C; how in fact the gross national product is calculated
at all in such communities is one of the mysteries of western
science. What these comparative statistics fail to take into
account is the other side of the coin: the increasing class
distinctions, crime, violence, the use of narcotics, the sharp
upward turn of the problems of social waste, which are an integral
part of super-development even in the Third World.
Western cultural statistics arrange the nations of the world in an
order of precedence that encourages the race for western
development and the creation of a material culture on western
lines. By means of statistics economic development is controlled
over the heads of national leaders, new needs are created for
entire nations, compulsive development is justified. The statistics
are complemented by the supranational bureaucracy even by the
United Nations' numerous agencies, which establish the imperialism
of starvation. The starving have their uses.
Starvation
statistics
demonstrate
the
necessity
of
the
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development directors that take it upon themselves to plan a new
global
society.
They
demonstrate
the
necessity
of
mass
communications to supply information shocks. In the treatment by
the western media on the problems of the developing countries, one
can see the creation of a total lie, for economic organizations
have been seen in the role of charities, and expansionist politics,
economic re-colonization and the selling of western technocracy
have
been
seen
as
missionary
work
euphemistically
called
development co-operation or development aid. It should be more
widely known that development aid in its present form is only the
real-politics of the industrialized countries, whose aim is to
guarantee new potential markets for intensified production. There
have always been people in the West who have justified their right
to make crusades to other cultures and in the Eurocentric history
of the west the subjugation of peoples has only too often been seen
as a deed of heroism.
Gross national product per capita is one of measures to order the
nations, cultures and life-styles of the world in order of
precedence as defined by the white man. Another equally common
method is to list nations according to how small a proportion of
their population works on the land or how large a proportion lives
in towns. A small self-sufficient agricultural village cannot make
a significant enough contribution to world trade to figure in
capitalist indices. What sort of civilization and development is it
that moves the greatest proportion of its population into city
slums in order to produce the cheapest luxury goods, labour force,
services, criminality and starvation? Is it because in cities human
beings provide their leaders with development statistics? Why is it
that in the statistical comparison of cultures, no mention is made
of those other figures that describe the urban consumer culture,
the statistics of crime, violence and narcotics? Why are only trade
volumes measured? Why not the alienation and rootlessness of the
slum dweller or the real human consequences of mechanical conveyorbelt work?
10. Compulsive development
During the past decades a mechanism for compulsive development has
been generated by the centralized and specialized organizational
structure of society. The mechanism of development is no longer
controllable by individuals and the process of standardization is
no longer directed by one particular class or interest group but by
the organization. It is above all the working-class that has seen
western development as its hope for the future. But as
organizations grow, the mechanism of compulsive development grows
up with them as do the mechanisms of economic unification and the
standardization of social structures, education and cultural
concepts and acculturation.
It is a fact that the ecological equilibrium of ethnic communities
has been disturbed and that the developing countries are forced to
change in order to adapt to the new economic system. The catch
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regional democracy, devolution, cultural heritage, africanization
and so on. But what is at issue is not regional culture but the
levelling out of differences in the standard of development.
Nationalist movements in many countries may speak of taking their
own road to development; the mechanism of global development is
approaching an indivisible whole.
In non-technological countries western development is considered
the superior cultural system, which offers untold riches to those
that adapt themselves most quickly. In the developing countries an
international sub-culture has grown up that has been nicknamed the
International cocktail club and which apes the western way of life.
But western development is indispensable to the bureaucrats who use
it to construct the machinery of power around themselves, to upstart national politicians who flirt with international ideologies,
to scientists and artists who can set themselves up as geniuses
after the western model. Numerous developing countries are governed
by political and economic profiteers, who have stakes in the
industrial and commercial enterprises in their country, who receive
princely
sums
from
investors,
entrepreneurs
and
importers.
Corruption is the price to be paid by the west for the expansion of
its markets and the demise of ethnic cultures.
The time has come for sociologists and cultural anthropologists to
examine their own role in this compulsive development. Should they
merely record the changes that take place, perhaps even establish
new disciplines such as urban anthropology or mass anthropology?
Should they concentrate on collecting into museums what can still
be salvaged, setting up memorials to dead cultures? Are there no
longer any cultures that are not western or westernizing? Has the
knowledge industry an institutionalized cultural system, a concept
of civilization that must inevitably lead to standardization? Is
mass identity endemic to man? Have ethnic culture and ethnic
characteristics any permanent value as other institutions, such as
marriage and the family, seem to have? Can culture be assessed in
other than quantitative terms? Is environmental protection more
important than the protection of cultures? Can technology only
create centralized, mammoth production units, urban slums? Is a
post-urban period possible in the history of human culture?

[92]
Similarly Primitivist John Zerzan105 argues that the primary motive of the â&#x20AC;&#x2014;leftâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC; is
to co-opt indigenous cultures into becoming industrialized cultures, where their
members become workers and consumers in the industrialized retrace. The problem
with the left, is their addiction to industrial progress, industrialization and
domestication, and their cooptation of indigenous and non-industrialized cultures, on
behalf of international corporations. Primitivists do not endorse industrialization or
industrializationâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s cooptation of indigenous cultures; whereas the left are fully
John Zerzan: Pretensions of Modernity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmSjMmqtF8g
John Zerzan on Property and Primitivism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlnAYeWWwt8
Zerzan: The Left, No Thanks: http://www.johnzerzan.net/articles/the-left-no-thanks.html;
Zerzan: Seize the Day: http://www.johnzerzan.net/articles/seize-the-day.html
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engaged in the cooptation of indigenous people‘s into becoming workers and
consumers, and not to be indigenous agrarian and outside of industrialization.
Primitivists perceive indigenous cultures as cultures which still have community face
to face, and an authentic community and cultural life, in touch with the land.
Primitivists believe we cannot all of a sudden become primitives and return to a
relocalized and non-industrialized way of life, but overtime we can do so; and if we do
not do so, the collapse of industrial civilization shall either exterminate us, or force us
to do so.
[93]

Fribourg Declaration on Cultural Rights106:

[93.1] The launch of the Fribourg Declaration on Cultural Rights was held May 7,
2007 at the University of Fribourg and May 8, 2007 at the Palais des Nations in
Geneva. The text was presented by the Observatory of Diversity and Cultural Rights
(which headquarters are at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Ethnics and Human
Rights at the Fribourg University) together with the Organisation Internationale de
la Francophonie and UNESCO.
[93.2] The cultural rights as expressed in the Fribourg Declaration of Cultural
Rights, brings together, in one document, the cultural rights, currently recognized in
a dispersed manner in a large number of human rights instruments; such as:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the two International Covenants on human
rights of the United Nations, the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural
Diversity and other relevant universal and regional instruments; because it is
important to assemble these cultural rights together in order to ensure their visibility
and coherence and to encourage their full realization.
[93.3] The Fribourg Declaration is convinced that violations of cultural rights give
rise to identity related tensions and conflicts which are one of the principal cause of
violence, wars and terrorism; and Equally convinced that cultural diversity cannot be
truly protected without the effective implementation of cultural rights. Among others
it states:
The term ―culture‖ covers those values, beliefs, convictions,
languages, knowledge and the arts, traditions, institutions and
ways of life through which a person or a group expresses their
humanity and the meanings that they give to their existence and to
their development;
The expression ―cultural identity‖ is understood as the sum of all
cultural references through which a person, alone or in community
with others, defines or constitutes oneself, communicates and
wishes to be recognised in one‘s dignity;

―Cultural community‖ connotes a group of persons who share
references that constitute a common cultural identity that they
intend to preserve and develop.
Everyone, alone or in community with others, has the right: a. To
choose and to have one‘s cultural identity respected, in the
variety of its different means of expression. This right is
exercised in the inter-connection with, in particular, the freedoms
of thought, conscience, religion, opinion and expression;
Everyone is free to choose to identify or not to identify with one
or several cultural communities, regardless of frontiers, and to
modify such a choice;
No one shall have a cultural identity imposed or be assimilated
into a cultural community against one‘s will.
Everyone, alone or in community with others, has the right to
access and participate freely in cultural life through the
activities of one‘s choice, regardless of frontiers.
Everyone, alone or in community with others, has the right to
participate, according to democratic procedures: • in the cultural
development of the communities of which one is a member; • in the
elaboration, implementation and evaluation of decisions that
concern oneself and which have an impact on the exercise of one‘s
cultural rights; • in the development of cultural cooperation at
different levels.

[94]

On 18 August 2008, Peru declared Ayahuasca part of their Cultural Heritage107
The Government of Peru declared the traditional knowledge and the
use of Ayahuasca practiced by the indigenous communities of the
Amazon forest to be national cultural patrimony. Ayahuasca is more
commonly known in Brazil as Santo Daime. The decision of the
Peruvian Government, signed by the Director of the National
Institute of Culture, Javier Ugaz Villacorta, was published on the
Saturday edition of the country‘s official daily newspaper, El
Peruano.
On the declaration of recognition, the Peruvian Government says
that Ayahuasca has psychotropic qualities, acting on the psychic
level, the mental activity, the behaviour, the perception, and is
known all over the world as an indigenous plant that transmits
spiritual knowledge.
It also says that the effects produced by its consumption are
equivalent to the entrance to the secrets of the spiritual world.
According to the National Institute of Culture, the Ayahuasca
ritual is establishing itself as the center of the traditional
medicine and is one of the pillars of the identity of the Amazon
people, its use being necessary and indispensable to all the
members of the Peruvian Amazon society.

Ayahauasca is a drink obtained from the decoction of the jungle
vine also known as Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) and the shrub
Chacruna
(Psychotria
viridis).
According
to
the
Peruvian
Government, Ayahuasca has an extraordinary cultural history due to
its psychotropic qualities.
Therapeutical virtues
The National Institute of Culture notes that the use and the
effects of the Ayahuasca are necessary to all the members of the
Amazon societies at some point in their lives, and indispensable
for them to assume the part of privileged carriers, be it through
communication with the spiritual world, or for plastic expression.
Peru‘s Government states that the effects produced by Ayahuasca
have been extensively investigated due to their complexity and are
different from the ones usually produced by hallucinogens.
"Part of that difference consists on the ritual of consumption,
that leads to several effects, however always within a culturally
limited margin, and with religious, therapeutical and cultural
purposes" says Javier Villacorta.
According to the Peruvian Government, "the practice of Ayahuasca
ritual sessions and their ancestral use in the traditional rituals,
guaranteeing cultural continuity, is tied to the therapeutical
virtues."
"There is a need for protection of the traditional use and the
sacred aspect of the Ayahuasca ritual, differentiating it from the
Occidental use, which is out of context, consumerist and with
commercial purposes" alerts the statement of the National Institute
of Culture.

[95]

A Psychological, Cultural or Economic Shock Doctrine:

[95.1] The thesis of Naomi Klein‘s, Shock Doctrine is that we've been sold a fairy
tale about how the industrial economic system works. To implement less ecological or
financial regulatory policies for the greater benefit of the Corpotocracy elite, the
economic system needed to be shocked, in a similar way that psychiatry shocked their
patients to break their spirits and introduce new identities. New Economic policies
needed shocks, crisis, and states of emergency to implement new changes, new
cultural, psychological or economic identities.
[95.2] Shock Doctrine sketches a history of the last thirty years where economic
shock doctrine has been applied throughout the world, where Klein gives introductory
examples of her two main hypothesis: (a) Practitioners of the shock doctrine tend to
seek a blank slate on which to create their ideal free market economies, which usually
requires a violent destruction of the existing economic order; (2) the similarities
between economic shock doctrine and the original shock therapy – a psychiatric
technique where electric shocks were applied to mentally ill patients.

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[95.3] In the chapter on psychiatric shock therapy, Klein deals with the covert
experiments conducted by the psychiatrist Ewen Cameron in collusion with the
Central Intelligence Agency: how it was partially successful in distorting and
regressing patients' original personality, but ineffectual in developing a "better"
personality to replace it. She makes parallel arguments with economic shock therapy
are made, including a digression on how government agencies harnessed some of the
lessons learned to create more effective torture techniques. Torture, according to
Klein, has often been an essential tool for authorities who have implemented
aggressive free market reforms – this assertion is stressed throughout the book. She
suggests that for historical reasons the human rights movement has often portrayed
torture without explaining its context, which has made it frequently appear as
pointless cruelty, when in fact there was, and is, a deep ‗identity shift‘ purpose in the
torture.
[95.4] Klein then proceeds to analyze how the use of shock doctrine transformed
South American economies in the 1970s, focusing on the coup in Chile led by General
Augusto Pinochet; followed by exploring ‗mild shock therapy‘ of Margaret Thatcher,
and other examples in Poland, Russia and South Africa. She concludes with an
analysis of ‗Disaster Capitalism Complex‘ and the best and most successful
application of Shock Doctrine ever: the invasion of Iraq.
[95.5] Klein however, never questions her Cultural Imperialist attachment to the
dogma of ‗Development Compulsion‘; she never questions her liberal Eurocentric
addiction to the ‗development‘ of the ‗undeveloped‘ natives. The cultural addiction to
the subjugation of nature, in order to build a technological civilization and the
unscrupulous exploitation of natural resources. However she does eloquently describe
the psychological, cultural and economic shock doctrine process, of implementing
changes, the recipients of the shock doctrine would culturally, psychologically or
economically oppose, in the absence of the shock doctrine events.
[96]
In How ―Pornland‖ destroys intimacy and hijacks sexuality 108; Dr. Dines
describes the process of how the objectification and commodification of women‘s
sexuality works, by starting with half-naked newspaper ‗pin-up‘ ads or subtle ‗Sex in
the City‘ marketing, to hard core gonzo porn.
In the preface of your book, you share a personal story about a
conversation you had with your son over pornography. You write, “I
said [to him] that should he decide to use porn, that he was going
to hand over his sexuality—a sexuality that he had yet to grow
into, that made sense for who he was and who he was going to be—to
someone else.” How and why do boys and young men give their power
away to pornography? What kind of power does pornography have in
http://www.xyonline.net/content/gail-dines-how-%E2%80%9Cpornland%E2%80%9D-destroys-intimacy-and-hijackssexuality
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shaping boys’ and men’s perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs toward
sex?
Boys and men don‘t realize the power they‘re giving away to
pornography. They don‘t understand the power it has to shape who
they are, their sexuality, and their sexual identity. In this
culture, we think of pornography as a joke or something to laugh
about. We don‘t take it seriously as a source of information that
has the ability and power to impact on the way we think about the
world. Most boys and men go to pornography for an ejaculation; they
come away with a lot more. I don‘t think they‘re quite aware of it.
Pornography, like all images, tells stories about the world. It
tells stories about women, men, sexuality, and intimacy. In
pornography, intimacy is something to be avoided, and—as I say in
the book—―In pornography nobody makes love. They all make hate.‖
The man makes hate to the woman‘s body. It‘s about the destruction
of intimacy.
Is it true that what most boys and men see in current trends of
pornography are things that they expect in sex? How did that
happen, and how is it impacting on boys’ and men’s perceptions,
attitudes, and beliefs toward sex?
Well, a lot of people don‘t know what pornography is. The first
thing I do in the book is very purposefully describe it in detail.
I know that for many people it‘s going to be hard to read. I
understand that. But if you‘re really going to understand what I‘m
saying and why I‘m saying it, then you have to understand the
material I‘m talking about. A lot of older men and women think I‘m
talking about Playboy from 15 years ago: a centerfold or a woman
with no clothes on smiling in a cornfield. They think, ―What‘s
wrong with that?‖ Well, that was bad enough in the way it
objectified women, but we‘re on a whole new level now with this
kind of imagery.
How it got to this point is the Internet. It made it more
accessible, affordable, and anonymous. You‘re seeing a massive rise
in use, and the users are getting younger and younger. Children who
are 11½ years old are now looking at pornography because it comes
straight into the home. There‘s no limit on how much you can
access. It used to be you had to steal father‘s Playboy or
Penthouse. Use was limited to how much you could actually pilfer.
Today it is unlimited.
So what happens is that desensitization sets in that much quicker
and that much earlier. In order to keep the consumer base going,
the pornographers have to keep upping the ante. They make it more
violent, body-punishing, or abusive as a way to keep men
interested. When you think about it, if you‘re exposed to it at age
11 or 12, you‘re jaded by 20. You‘re certainly jaded by 30.
Pornography bleeds sex dry of intimacy, emotions, and connection.
Once you
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and mechanical. So you have to keep feeding newer and newer ideas
just to keep [the audience] interested.
You describe Gonzo porn as “body-punishing sex.” Why is it bodypunishing, why is it prevalent today, and what do people need to
know about it?
It‘s body-punishing because the male performers pound away at a
woman‘s body. You often see three men orally, vaginally, and anally
penetrate her over and over again for 20 minutes or more, and these
are often Viagra-fortified penises, so they stay hard much longer.
A woman‘s body has limits. All of ours do. What you see in Gonzo
porn is a woman‘s anus that is red and sore and a swollen vagina.
All of these things happen because of the way a woman‘s body is
treated. Even the pornography industry says that Gonzo is very
demanding and potentially dangerous for women. If the industry is
saying it, then there‘s certainly a problem.
What I‘ve found with my interviews with men is the more they watch,
the more they want porn sex, because they become habituated to that
kind of industrial-strength sex. Once you become habituated to
that, anything else looks boring or uninteresting. What I find is
that some men lose interest in their partners altogether and use
more pornography. Other men nag and cajole their girlfriends to
perform porn sex, or they use prostitutes because that‘s who they
think they can play this porn sex out on.
Remember that you are not just reading or looking at porn. You‘re
actively masturbating and having an orgasm to it. It has a very
visceral response in the body. This is one of the reasons it is so
powerful.
How/why does pornography misuse and abuse the concepts of sex and
how/why does pornography normalize the idea that pain is pleasure?
Well, it‘s because of the way the woman‘s body is treated. In
pornography, no matter what you do to her, no matter how much you
physically or verbally abuse this woman, she loves it. She can‘t
get enough. What I find fascinating and upsetting at the same time
is...
Men believe that!
... That‘s right. They believe it. I‘ve had men argue with me that
they believe women like it. So when I say to them, ―What‘s your
evidence? Have you seen any empirical studies? Have you interviewed
these women?‖ No, of course they haven‘t. They‘re using the text as
their evidence because she‘s saying ―I love it! Give it to me
harder!,‖ when of course she has no choice. First of all, she wants
to get paid. She has to say that, and if she wants to continue
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I often hear that women actively seek “body-punishing sex,” talk
about liking it and desiring it, and write about it in nonpornographic, sex-related blogs, periodicals, and other forms of
media. Sometimes I hear people say that degrading acts of sex can
be intimate. Why is this perception wrong, and how has pornography
made people think this way? Why is this an unhealthy perception of
sex?
Because it distorts what women want, who they are, and the kind of
sex they want to have. I don‘t want to say there‘s nobody who wants
that kind of sex. In any society, you‘re going to have variations
on what people want.
The problem with pornography is that it normalizes that which is a
minority preference for many women. That‘s all you see in
pornography. You never see anybody say, ―Let‘s hold, let‘s kiss,
let‘s do all of these things.‖ Everyone in pornography wants it as
hard and fast as possible.
So what they do is they normalize something very unusual in the
culture. The more men look at pornography, the more they actually
think that this is what women want, especially because they have no
counterbalance to it. There is very little sex education today in
this country outside of pornography that really speaks to boys and
young men.
I’m sure you’ve heard the common response that “no one is forcing a
gun on women to perform these acts, and they are doing it by
choice.” Why is that a common justification for porn, and what is
wrong with that argument?
I
think
that‘s
a
very
apolitical
and
de-contextualized
understanding of choice. The majority of women in pornography—and
it‘s true in prostitution as well—are not women who have medical
and law degrees, and they‘re not choosing between practicing
medicine or going into pornography. The women are usually working
class women who are looking at minimum-wage jobs and who have been
sold an image of pornography, that it‘s glamorous. They see people
like Jenna Jameson or Sasha Grey with all of their pop culture
celebrity status.
Recently, Jameson was on Oprah Winfrey, and there was no real
analysis of what happens to women in pornography. What they did is
glamorize it by showing the wealth Jameson accumulated. What they
don‘t show is that for every Jameson there are tens of thousands of
women who end up poor, drug-addicted, incur bodily problems and
diseases. And often a lot of the women are there for only a short
time. They have a very short shelf life, and many of them end up in
brothels of Nevada. They don‘t end up in a huge mansion with lots
of fancy cars and beautiful clothes.
Another common attitude or belief boys and men have toward
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out in real life.” Do you see that as an excuse to legitimize
pornography? Why is that problematic?
I address this in my book. As progressive people, we cannot bear
that the right-wing media has the power to construct ideology in
this country. None of us who are progressive will look at Fox News
and say, ―It‘s just imagery; it‘s just a fantasy; and it has no
effect.‖ People can tell the difference between media and reality.
We know media has the power to shift views and consolidate rightwing ideology.
Pornography is also a form of media representation. So why is it
that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have the power to change and shape
society, and suddenly pornography is the only media form that has
no effect? This whole fantasy issue is totally ludicrous. It takes
no account of how images construct reality.
While pornography is pushing the boundaries of sex, it’s also
making its way into more and more mainstream media. What are the
most prevalent examples of porn being accepted or seen as “normal,”
and how is it being legitimized?
One example I talk about in Pornland is Brazilian waxes. They come
straight down from the pornography industry. Most of the female
students I meet across the country have no pubic hair whatsoever.
Their boyfriends don‘t like it, and I‘ve even heard of cases where
boys won‘t have any sex with women if they have any hair. Where did
this come from? When I was growing up, if somebody did that, you
would think something was wrong with them. Suddenly girls are
increasingly taking all of their pubic hair off and getting bikini
waxes.
Another example is the way in which the pornographic and
prostitution culture is being glamorized. Women can now take poledancing lessons. They wear clothing that looks like they just
stepped out of pornography. You see it everywhere, and women are
capitulating to men‘s sexual demands because there are very few
alternative ways of being female in this culture.
Another example of pornography having power is in the hook-up
culture that‘s taking place on college campuses. What is hook-up
sex? It‘s porn sex. It‘s the same thing. It‘s anonymous, nonintimate, and disconnected sex, and everyone is having hook-up sex
in pornography. Increasingly, what‘s interesting is that women and
girls are consenting to hook-ups even though studies show that they
experience less sexual pleasure than men and are more likely to be
raped in such situations.
Pornography today is being mainstreamed by the likes of Howard
Stern, “Maxim” magazine, or the “Girls Gone Wild” series. You also
mention the series “Sex and the City” in your book. How does the
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In ―Sex and the City,‖ pornography is kind of a minor character on
the show. It pops up a few times with men masturbating to porn and
wanting to bring it into the bedroom. These women on ―Sex and the
City‖ were not outraged. Some of them didn‘t like it but rarely
complained. A lot of men in ―Sex and the City‖ wanted porn sex,
hook-up sex, urination sex, and other things that come from
pornography. What you saw in ―Sex and the City‖ was women hooking
up and then feeling empowered by it, when in reality what they
really wanted—and what made ―Sex and the City‖ such a conservative
show—was to settle down with a guy. The series was all about
finding Mr. Right.
In Pornland you discuss racism in pornography. Oftentimes I hear,
“They’re not racist, they’re just funny titles.” How prevalent is
racism in pornography, and is it being diminished or trivialized by
consumers and producers alike? Why hasn’t most of society picked up
on this element?
One in four new videos to hit the market is interracial, which is
sex between a black man and a white woman. Today‘s interracial
videos depict body-punishing sex. A black man‘s penis is referred
to as ―gigantic,‖ ―huge,‖ and ―monstrous,‖ and the images reduce
black men to their penises, which has historical resonance in this
culture. Black women are portrayed as extremely animalistic,
uncontrollable, and deviant in their sexuality. Now what happens is
when you show these images over and over, it reinforces the way
white people think about people of color, because in this country
one of the ways in which they have rendered invisible racist
ideology is by sexualizing it.
Why haven’t
pornography?

many

people

picked

up

on

this

racist

element

in

I think most of them don‘t know. When I tell people, they‘re
shocked. If you ask the men who use pornography, they‘re not. But
these men, once aroused and eager to find an image to masturbate
to, are not in any mood to start doing a critical deconstruction of
the text.
One of the main reasons why interracial porn is so popular with
white men, which is the main consumer base, is if pornography is
about the dehumanization of women, what better way to dehumanize a
white woman in the eyes of white men than to see her being
penetrated over and over by something they view as depraved, the
black male body?
People or individuals who try to explain that sex is about
intimacy, caring, sharing, and trust in a relationship are often
cast off as “prudish,” “a tight-ass,” “a religious nut,” or
“someone who isn’t getting any.” How difficult has it been to
explain this aspect of sex and how pornography strips it of any
human connection? Why is there such aversion to sex based on
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I think there is a real fear of being labeled anti-sex. The way
pornographers and their allies have sold this is that you‘re either
pro-pornography or you‘re anti-sex. Which of course is ludicrous
because pornography is not the same as sex. Pornography is an
industrial product. It commodifies human needs and sells it back to
people, often in an unrecognizable form. It is not simply a
reflection of reality. It is a specific representation of it and it
is a specific way of representing sex.
Now to assume that if you are against pornography you‘re against
sex, is to assume that anyone who criticizes McDonald‘s is antieating. People who criticize McDonald‘s are against the destruction
of the environment, against the assault on healthy foods, and
against child obesity. They are against an industrial product. They
are not against eating. So why can‘t they see that it is the same
thing when it comes to pornography and sex?
Given the prevalence of pornography today, that demand for
pornography is going up, not down, and that sex acts are getting
more and more violent, degrading, and humiliating for men and
women, are you hopeful that things can be turned around?
To turn this around there needs to be a massive public health
awareness campaign. Unless people begin to understand the role
pornography is playing in our culture, I can‘t see any reason that
this won‘t get worse, because all of these men who started watching
pornography young are going to want more and more. Pornographers
themselves say they‘re having trouble keeping up with what fans
want because they want it so hardcore.
Where is this going to end? I don‘t know. What will an 11-year-old
boy want 10, 20, or 30 years from now? Nobody knows. The truth is
we‘ve never brought up a generation of males with hardcore
pornography. No one can really say what‘s going to happen. What we
do know, from how images and media affect people, is that it‘s
going to increasingly shape the way men think about sex, sexuality,
and relationships.

The AnthroCorpocentric Corpotocracy Elite’s destruction of family
and culturally homogenous tribal values by Corporate Multicultural
Colonialism: the ideal Egotist Consumptionism cultural Ideology for
Multinational Capitalism; where all states and all cultures are
colonized as consumptionist slaves to Multinational Corporations.
―We Americans are apostles of the Fast World, the prophets of
the free market and high priests of high tech. We want
‗enlargement‘ of both our values and Pizza Huts. We want the
world to follow our lead and become democratic and capitalistic,
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Windows in every computer and with everyone, everywhere, pumping
their own gas.‖109 ―…globalization has its own dominant culture,
which is why it tends to be homogenizing. Culturally speaking,
globalization is largely, though not entirely, the spread of
Americanization – from Big Macs to Mickey Mouse – on a global
scale.‖110 - Thomas L Friedman

[97]
In Stalking the Wild Taboo, by Garrett Hardin111: Part 4: Competition: (20)
Competition, a Tabooed Idea in Sociology; (21) The Cybernetics of
Competition; (22) Population, Biology and the Law; (23) Population Skeletons
in the Environmental Closet; (24) The Survival of Nations and Civilisations, he
deals with the concept of Competition, a process that is inescapable in societies living
in a finite resource world. He proves that the end result of perfect laissez-faire,
competition‘s end result reduces all competitors until there is only one left. The
monopolist will try to manipulate the machinery of society in such a way as to extend
his powers everywhere, without limit. The same applies to labour monopolies. Under
these conditions it is important to seek the boundary conditions within which the rule
of laissez-faire can produce stability. An Act that may be harmless when the system is
healthy and strong may be quite destructive when the system is stressed near its
limits. To promote the goal of stability, a law must take cognizance not only of
the act but also of the state of the system at the time the act is performed. A
good example is described by Ben Bagdikian112 of the systemic process of corporate
media cannibalism in Media Monopoly113.
[98]
Globalization refers to the dominance of multinational corporations and the
destruction of cultural identities.
[99]
Marxist and Leninist theories of imperialism assumed that the quest for everexpanding markets would in time compel nation-based capitalist economies to push
against national boundaries in search of an international economic imperium.
Whatever else has happened to the scientific predictions of Marxism, in this domain
they have proved farsighted. All national economies are now vulnerable to the inroads
of larger, transnational markets within which trade is free, currencies are convertible,
access to banking is open, and contracts are enforceable under law. In Europe, Asia,
Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas such markets are eroding national
sovereignty and giving rise to entities—international banks, trade associations,
transnational lobbies like OPEC and Greenpeace, world news services like CNN and
the BBC, and multinational corporations that increasingly lack a meaningful national

Thomas L. Friedman, ‗A Manifesto for the Fast World‘, The New York Times Magazine, 28 March 1999.
Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York, 1999), 8.
111 Garrett James Hardin (21 April 1915 – 14 September 2003) was a leading ecologist from Dallas, Texas, who warned of
the dangers of overpopulation and whose concept of the tragedy of the commons brought attention to "the damage that
innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He was most well known for his elaboration of this theme
in his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the Commons. He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Ecology: "You cannot do only
one thing".
112 In 1971, whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg gave Bagdikian — then an editor at the Washington Post — portions of the
Pentagon Papers, a top-secret classified history of the Vietnam War. Bagdikian passed a copy of the documents to Senator
Mike Gravel, who promptly read them into the Congressional Record.
113 The Media Monopoly, Boston: Beacon Press, 1983.
109
110

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identity—that neither reflect nor respect nationhood as an organizing or regulative
principle.
―Cultural imperialism is used to (1) increase demand for foreign
goods; (2) depress growth within local industry; and, (3) foster
a consumerist mentality where the need to save is overcome by
the desire to emulate the foreign rich. Once such a desire is
instilled in this market, corporations (4) widen and consolidate
their market by investing in merchandising facilities and sales
promotion. Their goal of establishing of preference for their
goods in the local economy means that they are involved in the
international transmission of values.‖ - Glendal P. Robinson, ‗A
Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web‘.

[100]
Communist
Philosopher
and
Economist
Slavoy
Zizek
argues
in
114
Multiculturalism: The Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism , that
fake Multiculturalism, is the ideal Egotist Consumptionism cultural logic of
Multinational Capitalism, intent on colonizing all cultures into slaves to Egotist
Consumptionism. Multinational Corporations wish to colonize all nations and their
cultures, turning all culture‘s primary cultural value into that of an egotist consumer,
for the profits of multinational corporations.
Multiculturalism: How, then, does the universe of Capital relate to
the form of Nation State in our era of global capitalism? Perhaps,
this relationship is best designated as ‗auto-colonization‘: with
the direct multinational functioning of Capital, we are no longer
dealing with the standard opposition between metropolis and
colonized countries; a global company as it were cuts its umbilical
cord with its mother-nation and treats its country of origins as
simply another territory to be colonized. This is what disturbs so
much the patriotically oriented right-wing populists, from Le Pen
to Buchanan: the fact that the new multinationals have towards the
French or American local population exactly the same attitude as
towards the population of Mexico, Brazil or Taiwan. Is there not a
kind of poetic justice in this self-referential turn? Today‘s
global capitalism is thus again a kind of ‗negation of negation‘,
after national capitalism and its internationalist/colonialist
phase. At the beginning (ideally, of course), there is capitalism
within the confines of a Nation-State, with the accompanying
international trade (exchange between sovereign Nation-States);
what follows is the relationship of colonization in which the
colonizing
country
subordinates
and
exploits
(economically,
politically, culturally) the colonized country; the final moment of
this process is the paradox of colonization in which there are only
colonies, no colonizing countries—the colonizing power is no longer
a Nation-State but directly the global company. In the long term,

we shall all not only wear Banana Republic shirts but also live in
banana republics.
And, of course, the ideal form of ideology of this global
capitalism is multiculturalism, the attitude which, from a kind of
empty global position, treats each local culture the way the
colonizer treats colonized people—as ‗natives‘ whose mores are to
be carefully studied and ‗respected‘. That is to say, the
relationship between traditional imperialist colonialism and global
capitalist
self-colonization
is
exactly
the
same
as
the
relationship
between
Western
cultural
imperialism
and
multiculturalism: in the same way that global capitalism involves
the paradox of colonization without the colonizing Nation-State
metropole,
multiculturalism
involves
patronizing
Eurocentrist
distance and/or respect for local cultures without roots in one‘s
own particular culture. In other words, multiculturalism is a
disavowed, inverted, self-referential form of racism, a ‗racism
with a distance‘—it ‗respects‘ the Other‘s identity, conceiving the
Other as a self-enclosed ‗authentic‘ community towards which he,
the multiculturalist, maintains a distance rendered possible by his
privileged universal position.
Multiculturalism is a racism which empties its own position of all
positive content (the multiculturalist is not a direct racist, he
doesn‘t oppose to the Other the particular values of his own
culture), but nonetheless retains this position as the privileged
empty point of universality from which one is able to appreciate
(and
depreciate)
properly
other
particular
cultures—the
multiculturalist respect for the Other‘s specificity is the very
form of asserting one‘s own superiority.

[101]
The International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD115) is a worldwide
network of artists and cultural groups dedicated to countering the homogenizing
effects of globalization on culture. The Proposed Convention on Cultural Diversity
Prepared for the International Network for Cultural Diversity 2003, states,
among others:
There is the need to ensure that cultural diversity is preserved in
the
face
of
the
unprecedented
challenges
posed
by
rapid
technological change, the convergence of telecommunications and
media corporations, erosions of distinctions between content and
carriage and the increasing global concentration of ownership over
the production and distribution of cultural content. At the same
time, efforts to dramatically expand the framework of international
trade regimes to encompass services, investment, competition policy
and government procurement, impose constraints on the capacity of
governments to implement cultural policies in response to these
pressures.

115

http://www.incd.net/incden.html

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It is understandable then that all three proposals state the same
fundamental purpose: to preserve the sovereign right of all nations
to take such actions as they consider appropriate to preserve,
promote and enhance cultural diversity.
All three drafts also state explicitly that cultural goods and
services must not be treated as mere economic commodities as has
been the case when trade dispute bodies have been called upon to
adjudicate conflicts between trade liberalization policies and
those necessary to achieve non-commercial cultural objectives.
There is also strong agreement about the need for the new
international instrument on cultural diversity to be legally
binding. A purely declaratory instrument will not be an adequate
buffer against the coercive forces that now threaten cultural
diversity. For this reason, meaningful enforcement procedures are
seen as an essential component of the new Convention.

[102]

In Constant Conflict116, Lt. Col. Ralph Peters effectively agrees with Zizek:
[..] Contemporary American culture is the most powerful in history,
and the most destructive of competitor cultures. While some other
cultures, such as those of East Asia, appear strong enough to
survive the onslaught by adaptive behaviors, most are not. The
genius, the secret weapon, of American culture is the essence that
the elites despise: ours is the first genuine people's culture. It
stresses comfort and convenience--ease--and it generates pleasure
for the masses. We are Karl Marx's dream, and his nightmare.
Secular and religious revolutionaries in our century have made the
identical mistake, imagining that the workers of the world or the
faithful just can't wait to go home at night to study Marx or the
Koran. Well, Joe Sixpack, Ivan Tipichni, and Ali Quat would rather
"Baywatch." America has figured it out, and we are brilliant at
operationalizing our knowledge, and our cultural power will hinder
even those cultures we do not undermine. There is no "peer
competitor" in the cultural (or military) department. Our cultural
empire has the addicted--men and women everywhere--clamoring for
more. And they pay for the privilege of their disillusionment.
American
culture
is
criticized
for
its
impermanence,
its
"disposable" products. But therein lies its strength. All previous
cultures sought ideal achievement which, once reached, might endure
in static perfection. American culture is not about the end, but
the means, the dynamic process that creates, destroys, and creates
anew. If our works are transient, then so are life's greatest
gifts--passion, beauty, the quality of light on a winter afternoon,
even life itself. American culture is alive.
[..] Our military power is culturally based. They cannot rival us
without becoming us. .. [..] In the meantime, the average American
can look forward to a longer life-span, a secure retirement, and
free membership in the most triumphant culture in history. For the

116

Ralph Peters:: Constant Conflict, US Army War College, Parameters

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majority of our citizens, our vulgar, near-chaotic, marvelous
culture is the greatest engine of positive change in history. .[..]
.. It remains difficult, of course, for military leaders to
conceive of warfare, informational or otherwise, in such broad
terms. But Hollywood is "preparing the battlefield," and burgers
precede bullets. The flag follows trade. .. [[..] .. Our
unconscious alliance of culture with killing power is a combat
multiplier no government, including our own, could design or
afford. We are magic. And we're going to keep it that way. ..[..]
Culture is fate. Countries, clans, military services, and
individual soldiers are products of their respective cultures, and
they are either empowered or imprisoned. The majority of the
world's inhabitants are prisoners of their cultures, and they will
rage against inadequacies they cannot admit, cannot bear, and
cannot escape.

[103]

Consumptionism: Consumption Vanity Disorder:
―Consumptionism: where State considers an individuals importance
in terms of consumption, not citizenship‖ – The Century of the
Self, Adam Curtis
"We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture. People
must be trained to desire. To want new things even before the
old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality
in America." - Paul Mazer
―Cultural
Capitalism:
where
the
very
act
of
egotist
consumption, already includes the price for its opposite.‖ –
Slavoy Zizek
―[A ‗throwaway‘ society‘ means] more than just throwing away
produced goods (creating a monumental waste-disposal problem),
but also being able to throw away values, life-styles, stable
relationships, and attachments to things, buildings, places,
people, and received ways of doing and being… individuals were
forced to cope with disposability, novelty and the prospects for
instant obsolescence.‖117 – David Harvey

[104]
Consumption-Vanity Disorder118 is a disease spread not through a mutating virus
or genetic predisposition – but through cultural ―Memes‖ – turning the world into a
reflection of the advertising images broadcast daily by 90% of all media - a world of
mini-malls, fashion obsessions, fake tits and belligerent gadgetry.
[105]
1924: Samuel Strauss: Consumptionism: science of compelling men to
use more and more things: Samuel Strauss was a journalist and philosopher
writing in the 1920s. The November 1924 issue of The Atlantic Monthly carried
Strauss' signature essay, "'Things Are in the Saddle.'" Following nineteenth

117
118

David Harvey, The Condition of Post-modernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Oxford, 1989),
Consumption Vanity Disorder: http://youtu.be/iKkEjl-RSfc

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century American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose ode he quotes,
Strauss contemplates the empire of "things" and the ethics of "consumptionism" he
felt had overtaken the country. He defines "consumptionism" as "the science of
compelling men to use more and more things."
[106]
Strauss was of the opinion that, despite their differences, both capitalism and
socialism were moving society in the same damnable direction, in a competition to see
"which can ensure the distribution of the most goods to the people."
[107]
Samuel Strauss suggested the term consumptionism to characterize this new
way of life that, he said, created a person with ―a philosophy of life that committed
human beings to the production of more and more things—―more this year than last
year, more next year than this‖—and that emphasized the ―standard of living‖ above
all other values.
[108]
1929: Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied - Charles Kettering, General
Motors Research Director, in Nations Business: Charles Kettering wrote that:
―We hear people complaining because of new models in automobiles. If it were not for
these new models these same people would be paying more for what they have.
Recognition of the fact that progress is inevitable forces us to recognize that we must
have improvements in motor cars. We, as manufacturers, must offer those
improvements after they have been found to be capable improvements. The public
buys and disposes of what it has. The fact that it is able to dispose of what it has
enables us, as producers, to put a lower price tag on the new model. The law of
economy in mass production enters here. We are permitted to turn out cars in volume
because there is a market for them. If automobile owners could not dispose of their
cars to a lower buying strata they would have to wear out their cars with a
consequent tremendous cutting in the yearly demand for automobiles, a certain
increase in production costs, and the natural passing along of these costs to the buyer.
If everyone were satisfied, no one would buy the new thing because no one would
want it. The ore wouldn't be mined; timber wouldn't be cut. Almost immediately hard
times would be upon us.‖
[109]
In The Century of the Self, Adam Curtis‗ BBC documentary documents how
Edward Bernays119, the father of "Public Relations"120, developed public relations, by
using his Uncle Sigmund Freud‗s discoveries concerning the unconscious "primitive
sexual and aggressive forces"121, to change the focus of advertising from the facts of a
product122, to implying the product would fulfill the individuals psychological/sexual
insecurities123 (Insecurity about small penis: purchase a large car124; Female penis

Curtis (2002): The Century of the Self (01/04) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUzwRCyTSo
".. If you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace .. propaganda got to be a bad word .. so I
found another word .. public relations" (07:15-08:39)
121 "A hundred years ago, a new theory of human nature was put forward by Sigmund Freud. He had discovered,
primitive sexual and aggressive forces, hidden deep inside the minds of all human beings" (00:10-21, 04:28-05:47, 09:1010:20)
122 ".. a products practical virtues, nothing more" (15:40-16:10)
123 "He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn‗t need, by linking mass
produced goods to their unconscious desires." (01:21)
124 ".. tell car companies, they could sell cars as symbols of male sexuality" (14:20, 18:45-19:00)
119
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envy insecurity: start smoking125). "Public Relations‗ worked to psychologically
engineer and manipulate citizens into the "All Consuming Self": the illusionary belief
the power is finally in their hands, they live in a "democracy"126; they are in charge127,
while their sense of identity is subconsciously manipulated from citizen (individual
authority/inner power of personal decision-making) to consumer (empty vessel
addicted to consumption of external ideas and products for sense of identity and
acceptance128), fueling the growth of the "Freedom is Debt-Slavery" mass-consumer
society129.
[110]
Cultural Capitalism’s Egotist Consumption: Where the very act of egotist
consumption, already includes the price for its opposite:
[111]
In First as Tragedy, then as Farce130, Communist Philosopher and Economist
Slavoj Zizek shares his perspective on the problems of ‗Ethical Consumption‘: ―Like
Soros, in the morning he grabs the money; in the afternoon, he gives half of the money
back to charity. In today's capitalism, more and more the tendency is to bring this
tendency together. So when you buy something, your anti-consumerist duty is to do
something for others, for the environment and so on, is already included in the price.
If you think I am exaggerating, walk around the corner, into any Starbucks coffee,
and you will see how they explicitly tell you, I quote "Its not just what you are buying,
its what you are buying into. When you buy starbucks, whether you realize it or not,
you are buying into something bigger than a cup of coffee. You are buying into a coffee
ethics. Through our Starbucks Shared Planet Program we purchase more fair trade
coffee than anyone in the world, ensuring that the farmers who grow the coffee beans
receive a fair price for their hard work.......‖ Its a good coffee karma. This is cultural
capitalism at its purist. You don't just buy a coffee. In the very consumerist act, you
buy your redemption from only being a consumerist. You do something for the
environment, you do something for starving children in Guatamala. ..... For every act
of consumerism, within the price you pay, you purchase your redemption. This
generates almost a kind of semantic over investment or burden. Its not just buying a
cup of coffee, you are fulfilling a whole series of ethical duties. This logic today is
almost universalized. Why? It makes you feel warm, it makes you feel like you are
doing something for … My point is that, this very interesting short circuit, where the
very act of egotist consumption, already includes the price for its opposite.‖
[112]
He proceeds to quote: Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism: ―It is
much more easy to have sympathy with suffering, than it is to have sympathy with
"Bernays set out to experiment with the minds of the popular classes .. "cigarettes were a symbol of the penis and of
male sexual power" .. "connect smoking cigarettes to idea of challenging male power, women would smoke to have their
own "torches of freedom" penis .. hence irrelevant objects could become powerful emotional identity symbols" (10:22:14:25)
126 "[At Versailles] .. we worked to make the world safe for democracy.. that was the big slogan .." (07:15-08:39)
127 "Out of this would come a new political idea about how to control the masses, by satisfying people‗s inner selfish
desires, one made them happy and thus docile; which was the start of the All Consuming Self .." (01:30)
128 Paul Meyser of Lehman Brothers wrote "We must shift America from a needs to a desire culture. People must be
trained to desire. People must want new things before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new
mentality in America. Man's desire must overshadow his needs." (16:10-18:03)
129 Consumptionism.. where State considers individuals importance in terms of consumption, not citizenship (20:30-20:50)
130 http://youtu.be/hpAMbpQ8J7g
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thought. People find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, ugliness, and
starvation. It is inevitable they would be strongly moved by this. Accordingly with
admirable, but misdirected intentions, they very sentimentally set themselves the
task of remedying the problems they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease,
they merely prolong it. Indeed, they are part of the disease. They try to solve the
problem of poverty, by keeping the poor alive, or in the case of an advanced school, by
amusing the poor. But this is not a solution, it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The
proper aim is to reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. It
is the altruistic virtues which have prevented the carrying out of this aim. The worst
slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves. In doing so they prevented the
core of the system to be realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by
those who contemplated it. Charity degrades and demoralizes.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;
[113]
Documentaries exploring the psychological and ecological consequences of the
ideology of Consumptionism include: Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers 131; On
Modern Servitude132; The Good Consumer Slave133; The Corporation: The Pathological
Pursuit of Power and Profit134; Killing us Softly: Advertisings Image of Women135;
Consuming Kids136; The High Price of Materialism137; Consumed: The Human
Experience138; No Logo: Brands Globalization Resistance139.